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The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Digital
Year
2021
ISBN
9781473554870, 9781787330702, 147355487X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
35 MB (36644557 bytes)
Pages
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Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-29 05:14:51

Description

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this year will become the turning point in Dickens's career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives.The Turning Point transports us into the foggy streets of Dickens's London, closely following the twists and turns of a year that would come to define him, and forever alter Britain's relationship with the world.'Sparklingly informative' Guardian'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' New Statesman

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