Charles Dickens : a life
/ Claire Tomalin
- London : Penguin Press , 2011
- 527 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by an unparalleled literary biographer. "Charles Dickens: A Life" gives full measure to Dickens' heroic stature--his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.