This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

John Forster's original three-volume text is abridged and brought to life with the addition of illuminating extracts from Dickens' own work and from recent criticism, biography and fiction.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

" -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872) The Life of Charles Dickens Two Volumes in One (1872) focuses on the English author's life from 1812-1851.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.