Charles Dickens

Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES

''Engaging and stimulating'' Simon Callow

''Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld''s series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens''s career and works, and treats with sympathy and sense his relations with the women in his life'' LITERAR...