Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations

Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations

Dickens's troubled, well-documented life has plenty to interest children....In their lovingly researched, incisively written biography, illustrated with a lushness and attention to period detail of which Dickens would have approved, Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema illuminate his inspirations, his impact on nations of readers, and his gleaming genius that has only brightened with time.