About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.

AndrewSanders is Professor of English at the University of Durham. He has edited several Dickens novels and is the author of Charles Dickens- Resurrectionist (1982) and The Short Oxford History of English Literature (2000).

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