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The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2012
On Sale: November 27, 2012
257 pages
ISBN: 0374298807
EAN: 9780374298807
Kindle: B008MWL9IK
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Non-Fiction Biography
The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the
world’s most beloved novelist
Charles Dickens,
famous for the indelible child characters he created—from
Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also
the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What
happened to those children is the fascinating subject of
Robert Gottlieb’s Great Expectations. With sympathy
and understanding he narrates the highly various and
surprising stories of each of Dickens’s sons and daughters,
from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who
died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Each of these
lives is fascinating on its own. Together they comprise a
unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and
disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.
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