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Charles Dickens

by Claire Tomalin
Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Oct. 2011. 496p. ISBN 9781594203091. $35.
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Tomalin having won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Whitbread Biography Award, among others, I don't think we'll have much quarrel with her life of Charles Dickens. Tomalin aims to show us that the perspicacious creator of Tiny Tim was a genius, yes, but also a stormy type whose obsessions drove him from family and friends. Essential if you've got literary readers.
Tomalin having won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Whitbread Biography Award, among others, I don't think we'll have much quarrel with her life of Charles Dickens. Tomalin aims to show us that the perspicacious creator of Tiny Tim was a genius, yes, but also a stormy type whose obsessions drove him from family and friends. Essential if you've got literary readers.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , May 01, 2011
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