Dickens

Dickens (1990) is a biography by English author Peter Ackroyd. Having previously published biographies of English authors, such as Oscar Wilde, Ackroyd pulls from virtually all the research publicly available to create a comprehensive retelling of the life of the popular and enduring nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens, whose most beloved works include Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities. In addition to relating the author's life-story, Ackroyd contextualizes Dickens's legacy, placing great emphasis on Dickens's use of poetic language in novels and the much-loved dramatic readings of his own work.