Dickens - Couverture rigide

Peter Ackroyd

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060166029 ISBN 13 : 9780060166021

Editeur : HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

Informed by the author's access to all of Dickens' correspondence, this biography represents a detailed portrait of Victorian London and an insightful profile of the complicated, intensely ambitious, and painfully insecure author

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.

Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern writer's. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, had enormous vitality and humour, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life: although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should upset his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow author Wilkie Collins, and, for the last 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress.

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060166029
• ISBN 13: 9780060166021
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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