Published in the Great Writers series, this concise biography follows Dickens from his birth in 1812 and his painful childhood through the triumph of Pickwick, the novels, the founding of Household Words, the public readings and his death in 1870. Marzials draws on Forster’s life and the published letters, adding his own judgements of the books.
A brisk, readable life for anyone who wants Dickens’s story in an evening rather than a month. Download the free EPUB.