![]() ![]() ![]() One of those books to read and reread for its wisdom, and its (laugh-out-loud) wit. First published in the early 1970s and written by one of the greatest living critics, John Carey’s The Violent Effigy examines Dickens’s work thematically, paying particular attention to the childlike worldview Dickens retained throughout his life. One of the finest critical studies of Dickens’s fiction, and probably the funniest ever written. John Carey, The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens’ Imagination. The full version of Ackroyd’s biography runs to over 1,000 pages, but is also recommended for the Dickens aficionado. True, the biography written by Dickens’s friend John Forster and published shortly after Dickens’s death is a hugely important source of information about the novelist’s life, but Ackroyd’s detailed picture of Victorian England and Dickens’s development as, effectively, a chronicler of his time is gripping and absorbing. Dickens by Peter Ackroyd 4.28 Rating details 191 ratings 48 reviews In this remarkable new biography, Peter Ackroyd offers a different view of Dickens to that presented in his earlier study of the author. This is still one of the best biographies – perhaps the best biography – of Charles Dickens out there. ![]()
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