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Published by Penguin Books - Revised and Abridged Edition, 1979
ISBN 10: 0140048952ISBN 13: 9780140048957
Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Good condition. Covers slightly sunned and showing signs of general wear. Not Inscribed. 601 pages. Here is the definitive biography of Charles Dickens. Drawing on thousands of letters, many still unpublished, Edgar Johnson depicts not only Charles Dickens but also the colourful world in which he lived. William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, and even Queen Victoria are among the players in the drama of Dickens's life- a drama in which he himself appears as one of the most complex figures of his time, a man whose political and social crusades ( against litteracy, capital punishment, unjust penal systems, and child abuse) are as compelling as his literary achievements. When the original two-volume edition of Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph appeared, Lionel Trilling wrote of it : 'We cannot say less of Mr Johnson's book than that it is the definitive life of Dickens. And to say that is to say that it is a splendid achievement and a work of superlative interest and charm.'.