Description
Yale University Press, Published 2009. Hardcover, xvi, 696 pp.; 25 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white illustrations in the text and 32 unnumbered pages of black-and-white plates.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue paper over boards, gilt lettering on spine; mild shelf wear. Binding tight; faint stain to top edge of text block; pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket reproduces a full-length photograph of Dickens against a pale green ground; mild shelf wear, with damp staining to the verso visible along the top and bottom edges of the rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. The first major biography of Dickens in twenty years, approaching the novelist through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study, Michael Slater examines the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable work, the amateur theatricals, and the astonishing productivity, with the core focus on Dickens's career as a writer and professional author, covering not only the major novels but the enormous output of letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and the scripts for his public readings.