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A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickenss superhuman imagination, from one of the greatest cultural critics of our time.

See Dickens as never before in this creative biography of his life through his storytelling the characters, places and emotions conjured up across the entire range of his novels, stories, magazine articles and public readings.

Peter Conrad, one of the great cultural critics of our time, repositions Dickens as a true giant of literature a magician with the power to work wonders, at his most ambitious a god-like creator who formed his own idiosyncratic world and populated it with hundreds of irrepressibly lively and often terrifying characters. Peter argues that Dickens alone rivals Shakespeare and in many ways outdoes him. he pays tribute to Dickenss almost industrial productivity as a writer, but also calculates the physical and mental strain it involved and the consequent upheavals in his emotional life. The forces of creation and destruction meet in Dickens, who was ultimately as he acknowledged in his unfinished murder story The Mystery of Edwin Drood torn apart by his own frenetic genius.

This is a celebration, an examination and an exploration of the most powerfully transformative imagination in literature, a force that was at once divine and devilish. Peter Conrads own expansive critical mind makes this book both a gift if you already love Dickens and a key to the work if you have yet to read him.

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A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickenss imagination and the world he created.

See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that set out, as he said, to rearrange the universe.

Peter Conrads bold rediscovery of Dickens suggests that he alone rivals Shakespeare and in some ways betters him. As well as re-examining the great novels, Conrads book probes the journalism in which Dickens reports on his risky ventures into the urban underworld. It also describes the celebrated but dangerously over-intense public readings in which, as at a seance, he allowed his most terrifying characters to take possession of him. Ultimately it
reveals how the forces of creation and destruction come together in Dickens, who despite his reputation for jollity and effusive sentiment found it increasingly hard to control the madness and violence of his own self-destructive genius.

Dickens the Enchanter takes us deep into an imagination whose power and originality struck some contemporaries as godlike while others thought it demonic. If you already love Dickens, it will renew your understanding of him; if you have yet to read him, it will lure you into his astonishing, alarming, enchanted world.

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Dickens the Enchanter

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