By the time he was done, he was one of the greatest writers of the 19th century (Tolstoy called him ‘THE’ greatest writer of the 19th century – warm praise from one master to another), an amazing achievement by someone who didn’t even finish school.ĭickens was a complex person. It describes how Dickens was born in a poor family, how he had to even work in a boot polish factory when he was a kid, how he rose up from those depths, became a journalist, and then became a novelist, and then a literary legend. ‘ Charles Dickens : A Life‘ is a 400-page biography of Charles Dickens. I thought I’ll do my bit to revive that and so picked this biography and read it. There used to be a beautiful event called ‘ Dickens In December‘ hosted by Delia (from ‘Postcards from Asia’) and Caroline (from ‘Beauty is a Sleeping Cat’) and I loved participating in that. I unearthed this gem recently when I discovered a box filled with books at home.
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