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Becoming Dickens
The Invention of a Novelist
By Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert
- ISBN
- 978-0-67405-003-7
- Publisher
- Belknap: Harvard Univ.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2011
This biography, culminating in 1838, when Dickens turned 26, presents persuasive evidence that had it not been for Dickens's willful ambition, his path to authorial renown might have been diverted by the circumstances of his childhood and adolescence. From a close reading of Dickens's early poetry, autobiography, and letters, Douglas-Fairhurst (English, Magdalen Coll., Oxford) portrays Dickens as a highly observant young man, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
