About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.

Reviews

Walter Bagehot once remarked, Dickens wrote about London "like a special correspondent for posterity"."The first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here," wrote Dickens’s friend and biographer John Forster.