Description: Simply Dickens explores the world of Charles Dickens, whose passionate and colorful life was of a piece with his beloved and wildly popular novels.
Brief description: Paul Schlicke is the author of Dickens and Popular Entertainment and the editor of the Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, and has served as president of the Dickens Society and the Dickens Fellowship, and as chairman of the trustees of the Charles Dickens Museum. Prior to his retirement in 2010, he taught English at the University of Aberdeen for 40 years.
Review Quotes: "This is one of the best short introductions to Dickens's life and work that I know. Paul Schlicke integrates the life of this extraordinary man with his fiction, journalism and public readings in a very engaging and lively narrative. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to the widest range of readers." -Malcolm Andrews, Emeritus Professor Victorian & Visual Arts, University of Kent, Editor of The Dickensian