Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant: The Making of a Literary Giant
With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.

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Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant: The Making of a Literary Giant
With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.

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Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant: The Making of a Literary Giant

Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant: The Making of a Literary Giant

Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant: The Making of a Literary Giant

Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant: The Making of a Literary Giant

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Overview

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230614260
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/12/2009
Edition description: Original
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 649,224
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christopher Hibbert is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George VI, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici; The English: A Social History; and Cavaliers and Roundheads.

John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at UCL and visiting Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, including How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide.

Table of Contents

Author's Note
The Better World 1812-1822
Warren's Blacking 1823-1824
Wellington House Academy 1824-1827
Messrs Ellis& Blackmore 1827-1827
Miss Maria Beadnell 1828-1833
The Chronicle Reporter 1833-1835
Miss Catherine Hogarth 1835-1836
The Inimitable Boz 1836-1837
Miss Mary Hogarth 1837
The Novelist Triumphant 1837-1839
Mrs Charles Dickens 1839-1845
Epilogue: 'You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?'
References and Notes
Sources
Index

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