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A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination, from one of the greatest cultural critics of our time.

See Dickens as never before in this creative biography of his life through his storytelling the characters, places and emotions conjured up across the entire range of his novels, stories, magazine articles and public readings.

Peter Conrad, one of the great cultural critics of our time, repositions Dickens as a true giant of literature a magician with the power to work wonders, at his most ambitious a god-like creator who formed his own idiosyncratic world and populated it with hundreds of irrepressibly lively and often terrifying characters. Peter argues that Dickens alone rivals Shakespeare and in many ways outdoes him. he pays tribute to Dickens''s almost industrial productivity as a writer, but also calculates the physical and mental strain it involved and the consequent upheavals in his emotional life. The forces of creation and destru

Dickens the Enchanter

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    A Hardback by Peter Conrad

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1/27/2025
      ISBN-13 9781399409193
      978-1399409193
      ISBN-10 1399409190
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination, from one of the greatest cultural critics of our time.

      See Dickens as never before in this creative biography of his life through his storytelling the characters, places and emotions conjured up across the entire range of his novels, stories, magazine articles and public readings.

      Peter Conrad, one of the great cultural critics of our time, repositions Dickens as a true giant of literature a magician with the power to work wonders, at his most ambitious a god-like creator who formed his own idiosyncratic world and populated it with hundreds of irrepressibly lively and often terrifying characters. Peter argues that Dickens alone rivals Shakespeare and in many ways outdoes him. he pays tribute to Dickens''s almost industrial productivity as a writer, but also calculates the physical and mental strain it involved and the consequent upheavals in his emotional life. The forces of creation and destru

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