Who Was Charles Dickens?

What you need to know before your trail

charles Dickens is a writer loved and well known all over the world for classic tales such as Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop and the Pickwick Papers to name but a few. Children across the world study his works and even perform in the plays adapted from them. But what was the man like himself? As a writer, we think we know him but what was his childhood like and how was he able to write about such poverty and the streets of London in such fine detail?

This book heralds his life in a nice neat form.