Charles Dickens
A Life
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4.1 • 18 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times.
From his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, Charles Dickens: A Life is a triumph of the biographer’s craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens’ own pen.
Customer Reviews
Charles Dickens a Life
I was so looking forward to buying a copy of this book to be able to read it on my iPad with it's great retina display . . . but was totally disappointed by the fact that the publisher Penguin Press chose to offer a truncated version of this book. WHERE ARE THE PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS!!!!
I am holding a physical copy of this book in my hands that includes THREE separate inserts of groups of photographs that the publisher DID NOT include in this digital edition!!!
And I'm equally disappointed that Apple has the audacity to sell it through iTunes and neglects to mention that this is NOT the complete book - but a watered-down version of it instead!! Obviously . . . There are no returns for electronic media . . . so now I'm stuck with this . . . I could have bought the print edition for a few dollars more and been assured that I purchased the WHOLE book.
A thoroughly dissatisfied and disgusted customer!!! BUYER BEWARE OF THIS PRACTICE IN EBOOK PUBLISHING!!