Slater M., Charles Dickens — 2007 (VIP: Very Interesting People. 3)
Аннотация: In this study Michael Slater has tried to tell the story of Dickens—s life within strict limits as to space by focusing primarily (after a short account of Dickens—s childhood, youth and early manhood) upon the story of his books—at all stages of their progress. Thus the emphasis falls upon Dickens—s career as a phenomenally productive and popular writer, both of fiction and non-fiction, while as much attention as possible is also paid to the main events in his personal life, as well as to his crowded and richly-documented social life, his astoundingly extensive and unremitting charitable activities, and his hugely successful second career as a public reader of his own works
