"Charles Dickens: The Man, the Novels, the Victorian Age" by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, 2019
“Great use has been made of rare artefacts, images and letters in this lavishly illustrated volume with beautiful photographs and artworks and never-before-seen personal documents. The book discusses what he was like as a husband, father, friend and employer, his longing to be an actor, his travels across North America, his year spent living in Italy and his great love of France. We discover when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in Dicken's cast of characters.
Contains engravings, posters, colour artworks on nearly all its enjoyable pages.”
Hardcover, minor scuffs to bottom of front board and title page has a tear and wrinkles. No other major issues.
“Great use has been made of rare artefacts, images and letters in this lavishly illustrated volume with beautiful photographs and artworks and never-before-seen personal documents. The book discusses what he was like as a husband, father, friend and employer, his longing to be an actor, his travels across North America, his year spent living in Italy and his great love of France. We discover when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in Dicken's cast of characters.
Contains engravings, posters, colour artworks on nearly all its enjoyable pages.”
Hardcover, minor scuffs to bottom of front board and title page has a tear and wrinkles. No other major issues.
“Great use has been made of rare artefacts, images and letters in this lavishly illustrated volume with beautiful photographs and artworks and never-before-seen personal documents. The book discusses what he was like as a husband, father, friend and employer, his longing to be an actor, his travels across North America, his year spent living in Italy and his great love of France. We discover when and how life and real-life personalities were imitated in Dicken's cast of characters.
Contains engravings, posters, colour artworks on nearly all its enjoyable pages.”
Hardcover, minor scuffs to bottom of front board and title page has a tear and wrinkles. No other major issues.
