Life of Charles Dickens

A short life of Dickens for the Great Writers series, published seventeen years after his death - the career, the readings, the separation and the death at Gad''s Hill, with a full bibliography. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates of painting, among them works by John Everett Millais, William Quiller Orchardson and David Wilkie, and includes one restored and coloured illustration.