Charles Dickens

Very Interesting People #3

by Michael Slater

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...
From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.
Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

152 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2007

About the author

Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, past President of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America, and former editor of the journal The Dickensian. He has taught and continues to lecture widely in the USA, across Europe, Australasia and the Far East.

Read an article by Michael Slater at Yale's London Blog: Charles Dickens: An Attempt on his Life

Reviews

[Isabella Roh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a short, concise, and informative biography of Dickens, which provides context for most of his literary works. It's not incredibly detailed, but that's fine, since it's intended to be a brief overview. It also provides good references, (particularly to Forster's biography and Dickens's letters) which give the reader places to go if they're looking for something deeper.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, informative, interesting biography of my favorite author.