Book description
Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when
he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours,
and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This
collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of
the city in all its variety and cruelty. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout
history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the
way we see ourselves ? and each other. They have inspired debate,
dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked
and comforted. They have enriched lives ? and destroyed them. Now
Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals
and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we
are. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. A
journalist and novelist of genius, he was the dominant force in English
literary life from the publication of
The Pickwick Papers
in 1836 to his death in 1870.
