^#smrgSAHAF World of Charles Dickens - 1972

The ambiguities and perplexities of the Victorian Age were reaected in the contradictions of Dickens's own life and character. Angus Wilson, who has been deeply interested in Dickens and his works since childhood, here writes a sympathetic and revealing study of Dickens's world, relating the social problems and background of the age to the characters and themes of'his works.

The book contains réproductions of nearly two hundred Victorian genre paintings, portraits, street scenes, caricatures, and contemporary illustrations of Dickens's works, including forty pages of colour plates.

In oonjunction with the illumination of Angus Wilson's text, this hook is an unpretedentedly vivid evocation of the world of Charles Dickens.