Personal name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

This volume contains the first-ever annotated edition of Dickens' journalism, and features examples of his work never before collected together.

The 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth is February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author.

Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, bringing to life Dickens the man. He reveals an original genius, and offers an insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literary endeavour.

From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England.

Claire Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.

Claire Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.

This long-awaited biography uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, and the productivity o...

Charles Dickens was a prolific writer of letters throughout his life. There are extant more than 13,000 letters that he wrote to friends, family, fellow authors and actors as well as many letters written to people involved in good causes he espoused.

Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, bringing to life Dickens the man. He reveals an original genius, and offers an insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literary endeavour.

The extraordinary life and genius of Charles Dickens is brought alive for primary-age children in this book published to celebrate the bi-centenary of Dickens' birth.

London, December, 1835. Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of carolling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man at their feet, his neck str...

The creation and afterlife of 'The Pickwick Papers' is the subject of Stephen Jarvis's novel, 'Death and Mr Pickwick'. This vast, intricately constructed, indeed Dickensian work is at once the ultimate homage to a much-loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, ...

This series introduces the lives and works of major writers and the historical, cultural and literary contexts in which they wrote. Each book provides details of the events that influenced their writing, and covers the lasting impact of their work. This book focuses on Charles Dickens.

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots.

'Dickens on France' brings together short stories, extracts from novels and travel writing. Among its journalistic highlights are accounts of a train journey from London to Paris, a rough Channel crossing and Parisian life in the 1850s and 1860s. The selected short stories include 'His Boots'.