The World of Charles Dickens Author:Angus Wilson The ambiguities and perplexities of the Victorian Age were reflected in the contradictions of Dickens's own life and character. AQngus Wilson, who has been deeply interested in Dickens and his works since childhood, here writes a sympathetic and revealing study of Dickens's world, relating the social problems an dbackground of the age to the cha... more »racters and themes of his works.
This book contains reproductions of nearly two hundred Victorian genre paintings, portraits, street scenes, caricatures, and contemporary illustrations of Dickens's works, including forty pages of color plates.
In conjunction with the illumination of Angus Wilson's text, this book is an unprecedentedly vivid evocation of the world of Charles Dickens.« less