The Genius of Dickens

Author(s): Michael Slater

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Dickens is one of the greatest literary icons in the English-speaking world, who possessed a genius as a communicator as well as a storyteller, and who remains a writer of inexhaustible popular interest, as notable today on screen as on the bookshelf. Michael Slater has spent half a century reading and writing about him - above all enjoying him. In this book he provides a personal insight into the truth of a famous tribute paid to Dickens by a helper on his triumphal Public Reading tours: 'The more you want out of the Master, the more you'll find in him.' Previously published as The Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens, this anniversary hardback includes a new preface. Ranging widely over Dickens's fiction, journalism, letters and speeches, it captures the ideas and beliefs, the social and artistic ideals of 'Dickensian values', and the ambition, that inspired and shaped Dickens's prodigious output, offering an authoritative short portrait of Dickens the man and writer.

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'No living person is a greater authority on the life and works of Charles Dickens than Michael Slater' - Claire Tomalin 'Slater, the most distinguished of modern Dickens scholars, is master of detail.' - John Bowen, TLS

Michael Slater is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, London, a former Editor of The Dickensian and a past President of the International Dickens Fellowship. His many publications include Penguin's full-length biography Charles Dickens and his four-volume Uniform Edition of Dickens's Journalism which is soon to be published.

General Fields

  • : 9780715641545
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.245
  • : October 2011
  • : 178mm X 110mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : December 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Slater
  • : Hardback
  • : 2011
  • : English
  • : 823.8
  • : 192
  • : ill