The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World
Author: Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert
ISBN: 9781784708337
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Descripition:
A major new biography of Charles Dickens, by the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this year will become the turning point in Dickens's career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives.
The Turning Point transports us into the foggy streets of Dickens's London, closely following the twists and turns of a year that would come to define him, and forever alter Britain's relationship with the world.
'Sparklingly informative' Guardian
'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer
'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' New Statesman
ISBN: 9781784708337
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Descripition:
A major new biography of Charles Dickens, by the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this year will become the turning point in Dickens's career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives.
The Turning Point transports us into the foggy streets of Dickens's London, closely following the twists and turns of a year that would come to define him, and forever alter Britain's relationship with the world.
'Sparklingly informative' Guardian
'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer
'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' New Statesman
