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Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant

Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant

by Christopher Hibbert (Author), Christopher Hibbert (Author)

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    Illustrated 2009

    $21.75
Synopsis

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Smp Palgrave Trade
Published: 12 May 2009
ISBN 10: 0230614264
ISBN 13: 9780230614260

Media Reviews
Praise for Christopher Hibbert: 'Hibbert is a remarkably prolific popular historian, who can take on almost anything, from Dickens to General Wolfe, from Agincourt to Garibaldi' - The Observer '[Hibbert] is a superbly skillful historical writer' - The Spectator
Author Bio
CHRISTPOHER HIBBERT was born in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oxford, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George VI, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici; The English: A Social History; and Cavaliers and Roundheads.