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. Details Select delivery location Usually dispatched within 3 to 4 days. Eliot his subjects, captures the nonfictionor 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. Dickens by Peter Ackroyd (): .uk: Books Buy new: £81.52 £2.79 delivery October 21 - 25. Dickens (1990), by Peter Ackroyd This tome of 1,000-plus pages by Peter Ackroyd, a biographer who has also made Ezra Pound and T. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. 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. Indeed, Dickens drew strongly on his own experiences as the source for much of his fiction. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Charles Dickens's life is a story of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour, and fame and fortune overshadowed by guilt and secrecy - rather like the plot of one of his novels. Ackroyd constructs a stunning life and times work of Dickens, depicting 19th century London as one of Dickens' own novels.
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. From one of England's literary masters, a monumental biography of Dickens worthy of standing beside Painter's Marcel Proust and Ellman's James Joyce.
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