Paperback edition of Ackroyd's biography of the great Victorian novelist, author of }The Woman In White{ and }The Moonstone{. Follows his life from his birth as the son of a well-known artist, through his struggles to become a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendships with Charles Dickens. From the acclaimed author who has written biographies of Dickens, Blake, Chaucer, Poe, Shakespeare and many others As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.
