{"product_id":"dickens-a-biography-9780801860188","title":"Dickens: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed a notable book of the year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and one of best biographies of 1988 by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England. And no one has captured the rich texture of this life as colorfully and persuasively as Fred Kaplan in this acclaimed biography. Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten sources, Kaplan presents a full-scale portrait of Dickens and his world. From the autobiographical basis of his novels and his extraordinary circle of friends to the course of his unhappy marriage and complicated family relations, Kaplan reveals the restless compulsions, private passions, and professional concerns that drove Dickens to unprecedented literary success. Kaplan details Dickens's often stormy dealings with his publishers and his carefully cultivated relationship with readers, heightened through amateur theatricals and numerous public readings in Britain and North America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly written and thoroughly researched, \u003ci\u003eDickens\u003c\/i\u003e provides an absorbing and perceptive account of its subject as a singularly complex man and a consummate artist, offering readers new insights into Dickens's--and literature's--greatest works, works such as \u003ci\u003eBleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.98w x 1.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801860188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/1999 pg. 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/10\/2010 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFred Kaplan \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eMiracles of Rare Devices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDickens and Mesmerism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThomas Carlyle, A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eSacred Tears\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHenry James: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens' Book of Memoranda\u003c\/i\u003e. A past recipient of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, he has also served as editor of the \u003ci\u003eDickens Studies Annual\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":66956739379315,"sku":"9780801860188","price":71.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_cc88f92f-4fac-4db7-a34d-2487a8b9b962.jpg?v=1792581106","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/dickens-a-biography-9780801860188","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}