books.google.co.uk - 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 lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Charles_Dickens.html?id=GPHkiefalPUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCharles Dickens