{"id":681,"date":"2011-10-06T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T22:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2015-11-09T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:22:33","slug":"charles-dickens-life-claire-tomalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/charles-dickens-life-claire-tomalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594203091\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1594203091\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-704\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0pt 30px 25px 0pt;\" title=\"Dickens A Life\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DickensAlife_s.jpg\" alt=\"Dickens A Life\" width=\"105\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Just in time for his 200th birthday, Claire Tomalin, the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140121366\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399381&amp;creativeASIN=0140121366\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Woman<\/a><\/em>, comes out with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594203091\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1594203091\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Dickens: A Life<\/a><\/em>. (The book will be released October 27, but can be pre-ordered now.)<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has this to say about <em>Charles Dickens: A Life<\/em>, &#8220;Charles Dickens: A Life gives full measure to Dickens&#8217;s heroic stature-his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being- while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye. Renowned literary biographer Claire Tomalin crafts a story worthy of Dickens&#8217;s own pen, a comedy that turns to tragedy as the very qualities that made him great-his indomitable energy, boldness, imagination, and showmanship-finally destroyed him. The man who emerges is one of extraordinary contradictions, whose vices and virtues were intertwined as surely as his life and his art.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for his 200th birthday, Claire Tomalin, the author of The Invisible Woman, comes out with Charles Dickens: A Life. (The book will be released October 27, but can be pre-ordered now.) Amazon has this to say about <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[825],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-dickens","tag-charles-dickens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}