Dickens

Local Description

1990, First edition. A near fine copy only marked by very minor marking to the top edge. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine with only very light bumping to the head of the spine. An excellent copy.

Description

Peter Ackroyd creates Dickens as the consummate artist & entertainer, a man whose public persona gave little hint of the darkness of his private life.

Author description

eter 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.