Charles DickensA magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetimes study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works,