Dickens biography ackroyd
Dickens
Dickens - Penguin Books UK
Having previously published biographies of English authors, such as Oscar Wilde, Ackroyd pulls from virtually all the research publicly available to create a comprehensive retelling of the life of the popular and enduring nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens, whose most beloved works include Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities.
In addition to relating the author's life-story, Ackroyd contextualizes Dickens's legacy, placing great emphasis on Dickens's use of poetic language in novels and the much-loved dramatic readings of his own work.
Born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was the second child of Navy clerk John Dickens and his wife, Elizabeth Dickens.
Until the age of ten, Dickens led an idyllic childhood, playing outside and devouring books in equal measure. However, in 1822, the Dickens family moved from a quiet suburb in Kent to the center Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard LEZE