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Charles Dickens And The Great Theatre Of The World
Simon Callow
Vintage Books
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
384 pages
ISBN: 034580323X
EAN: 9780345803238
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Non-Fiction
Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow offers a fresh
perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English
language, Charles Dickens, in this lively, colorful biography.
Dickens was one of the first true celebrity authors.
Thousands of fans in Britain and America eagerly awaited
each new installment of his stories and flocked to see him
on his legendary speaking tours. Not only did he create an
incredible cast of characters on the page, but he was also a
dazzling mimic and storyteller, and he wrote, stage-managed,
and acted in plays for the public. Throughout his life, from
his childhood performances in pubs to his legendarily
powerful reading tours, Dickens was fanatical about the
stage. Callow reveals Dickens’s genius on and off the page
and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven
as much by performance and showmanship as by literature.
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