彼得·阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd）（1949—），当代英国文坛成就斐然的小说家、传记作家和诗人，1949年生于伦敦，先后就读于剑桥和耶鲁。22岁在耶鲁求学期间就完成了《新文化札记》（Notes for a New Culture： An Essay on Modernism），并于1976年正式出版。曾任《旁观者》（The Spectator）文学编辑多年，亦曾担任《泰晤士报》（The Times）首席书评家，1984年入选英国皇家文学学会成员。2003年，他因对英国文学所做出的杰出贡献而获得第三级英国爵位的头衔（Commander of the Order of the British Empire，常略作CBE）。2006年成为美国人文与科学院（又译美国艺术与科学院或美国文理科学院，American Academy of Arts a...(展开全部)

Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world’s greatest writers. It is published to tie-in with a 3-part BBC-TV series on Dickens with Peter Ackroyd, part drama (based on Ackroyd’s Simon Callow play), part documentary, part biography.

彼得·阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd）（1949—），当代英国文坛成就斐然的小说家、传记作家和诗人，1949年生于伦敦，先后就读于剑桥和耶鲁。22岁在耶鲁求学期间就完成了《新文化札记》（Notes for a New Culture： An Essay on Modernism），并于1976年正式出版。曾任《旁观者》（The Spectator）文学编辑多年，亦曾担任《泰晤士报》（The Times）首席书评家，1984年入选英国皇家文学学会成员。2003年，他因对英国文学所做出的杰出贡献而获得第三级英国爵位的头衔（Commander of the Order of the British Empire，常略作CBE）。2006年成为美国人文与科学院（又译美国艺术与科学院或美国文理科学院，American Academy of Arts a...(展开全部)

Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world’s greatest writers. It is published to tie-in with a 3-part BBC-TV series on Dickens with Peter Ackroyd, part drama (based on Ackroyd’s Simon Callow play), part documentary, part biography.

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “the Great Stink” across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling micro...(展开全部)

A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “The Great Stink” together

The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England’s most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let hi...(展开全部)

A brilliantly insightful portrait of Charles Dickens-from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley. With delectable wit and characteristic sensitivity, Jane Smiley presents a fresh, illuminating take on the life of Charles Dickens. Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of such classics as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol , who was not only a pro...(展开全部)