Download or read book Dickens (Abridged) written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. The author also wrote "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde", "Hawksmoor", "Chatterton", "T.S.Eliot" and "First Light".