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Dickens
Author: Peter Ackroyd
From Publishers Weekly: — Ackroyd ( The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde ) is a master biographer with a seductive prose style, and this massive volume is likely to stand as the Dickens biography for decades to come. Ackroyd moves around with authority in the world of the ebullient, ambitious, insecure, haunted, theatrical genius, which is also the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781895246018
ISBN-10: 1895246016
Pages: 1,256
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Publisher: Stewart House
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Ackroyds magnificent biography sets the seal on Dickens acknowledged supremacy in the English novel... I can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy and read this book... it supersedes all other Dickens biographies. Anthony Burgess, Independent

I couldnt stop reading it; its absolutely marvellous... This is an absolutely essential book for anyone who has ever loved or read Dickens. P.D. James

A breathtaking feat of scholarship. The Times

As scholarly as it is imaginative... fully worthy of its subject. John Gross, Sunday Telegraph

The best biography of Charles Dickens which I have ever read... a thoroughly professional job... Ackroyd soars above his predecessors in Dickens-study. Robert Nye, Scotsman --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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