Charles Dickens and His WorldScribner, 1978 - 144 pagine Charles Dickens was one of the giants of the Victorian era. An impoverished childhood, sweated labor in a blacking factory, a period spent working with a Grays Inn solicitor, and finally success as a parliamentary reporter -- these experiences gave him the eye and ear of the satirist and the compassion of the social reformer, which were eventually to be the sources of his greatness as a novelist. But if we are fully to understand Dickens's work, we have to understand his own character: the qualities that made him both the great humorist of "Pickwick Papers", and the attacker of social evils who wrote "Oliver Twist" and "Hard Times". J. B. Priestley has proved to be the ideal commentator on the great Victorian's life and complex character in this fully illustrated biography. -- From publisher's description. |