Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph

Here is the definitive biography of Charles Dickens. Drawing on thousands of letters, many still unpublished, Edgar Johnson depicts not only Charles Dickens but also the colorful world in which he lived. William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, and even Queen Victoria are among the players in the drama of Dickens's life - a drama...