CharlesDickens:ALife

作者 Claire Tomalin著
出版社 PenguinGroup(USA)Incorporated
出版时间 2012年10月
ISBN 9780452282247
定价 102.80

内容简介

WhenCharlesDickensdiedin1870,TheTimesofLondonsuccessfullycampaignedforhisburialinWestminsterAbbey,wherethousandsflockedtomournthebestrecognizedandlovedmanofnineteenth-centuryEngland.Hisbookshadmadethemlaugh,shownthemthesqualorandgreedofEnglishlife,andalsothepowerofpersonalvirtueandthestrengthofordinarypeople—throughthelikesofDavidCopperfield,OliverTwist,LittleNell,andmanymore.InhislastyearsDickensdrewadoringcrowdstohispublicappearances,hadmetpresidentsandprinces,andhehadamassedafortune.Likeaherofromhisnovels,Dickenstrodahardpathtogreatness.Born...

作者简介

CLAIRETOMALINworkedinpublishingandjournalismformanyyears.ShewasliteraryeditorfirstoftheNewStatesmanandthentheSundayTimes,beforedevotingherselftowritingfulltime.SheistheauthorofeighthighlyacclaimedbiographiesincludingThomasHardy,TheInvisibleWoman:TheStoryofNellyTernanandCharlesDickens,andSamuelPepys:TheUnequalledSelf,whichwasthe2002WhitbreadBookoftheYear.ShelivesinEnglandwithherhusband,MichaelFrayn.

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