(London), Sinclair-Stevenson, (1990). An advance reading excerpt of Ackroyd's massive biography of Dickens. Ackroyd's first novel, The Great Fire of London, was a re-working of Dickens' Little Dorrit. He has written poetry, criticism, fiction and biographies; a number of his works of fiction have been, in part, a portrait of the city of London, and he also wrote London: The Biography. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#020574] SOLD