Award-winning author Claire Tomalin 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...

An intensely personal and revealing biography of life with Eric Hobsbawm one of the 20th Century's most influential intellectualsA rich and fascinating life - from pre-war Vienna via an emigre childhood in the UK and on to Italy, the Congo and the US.