The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Vintage) - Softcover

Tomalin, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804172129 ISBN 13: 9780804172127

Verlag: Vintage Books, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

Now a major motion picture directed by Ralph Fiennes, co-starring Fiennes and Felicity Jones with Michelle Fairley, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Tom Hollander: the unforgettable story of Charles Dickens's mistress Nelly Ternan, and of the secret relationship that linked them.

When Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857, she was 18: a professional actress performing in his production ofThe Frozen Deep. He was 45: a literary legend, a national treasure, married with ten children. This meeting sparked a love affair that lasted over a decade, destroying Dickens's marriage and ending with Nelly's near-disappearance from the public record. In this remarkable work of biography, Claire Tomalin rescues Nelly from obscurity, not only returning the neglected actress to her rightful place in history, but also giving us a compelling and truthful account of the great Victorian novelist. Through Dickens's diaries, correspondence, address books, and photographs, Tomalin is able to reconstruct the relationship between Charles and Nelly, bringing it to vivid life. The result is a riveting literary detective story—and a portrait of a singular woman.

Biografía del autor:

Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, includingThomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award.

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804172129
• ISBN 13: 9780804172127
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 333