There is an immediacy about Charles Dickens's life, just as there is about his novels, a kind of bursting physicality. "If I couldn't walk fast and far," he once said, "I think I should explode and perish." He exhilarated and exhausted himself. Both these biographies, timed for the bicentenary of Dickens's birth next February, bring out the mad energy of the man.

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