Archival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop

From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the st

No novelist is as intimately connected to a great city as Dickens is to London. The vibrancy of the city determined the shape and character of Dickens's work an

Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: n

The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.