Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

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A concise portrait of the forefront Victorian novelist by the acclaimed actor and award-winning author of My Life in Pieces draws on his own experiences of portraying his subject on stage and screen to illuminate Dickens' genius and lesser-known status as a celebrity in his own time. - Publishers description.;Paradise -- Paradise Lost -- Beginning the World -- The Birth of Boz -- The Peregrinations of Pickwick -- Practical Power -- Here We Are! -- Sledge-Hammer Blow -- Animal Magnetism -- Every Man in His Humour -- The Great Fight and Strife of Life -- Not So Bad as We Seem -- The Ice-Bound Soul -- Going Public -- The Loadstone Rock -- On the Ground. Paradise -- Paradise Lost -- Beginning the World -- The Birth of Boz -- The Peregrinations of Pickwick -- Practical Power -- Here We Are! -- Sledge-Hammer Blow -- Animal Magnetism -- Every Man in His Humour -- The Great Fight and Strife of Life -- Not So Bad as We Seem -- The Ice-Bound Soul -- Going Public -- The Loadstone Rock -- On the Ground.