Simon callow charles dickens biography charleston sc

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You might assume, at first glance, that this is a niche book about Dickens and the theatre - actually it's a popular general biography, with a bit more than a standard bio about Dickens' lifelong relationship with theatre.

It's also about how a talented and flamboyant man with a huge ego and an eye for public sympathy made a country his stage - a country which purported to rule a large portion of the world at the time.

Claire Tomalin's was my first choice when I wanted to listen to an audio biography of Dickens after re-reading A Christmas Carol, but Callow's was on Scribd (as is the ebook), and Tomalin's wasn't.

Callow is a lively and engaging reader who does excellent accents, as you'd expect from an actor of his calibre. (He doesn't do 'impressions' of women, something for which I've often seen GR reviews criticise male audiobook readers.) However, Callow reads very quickly, and even at my most alert, I had to listen on 0.8 speed to be able