Biographic

Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in his attempts to battle insomnia; and that he kept a pet raven called Grip, which he ordered to be stuffed after its death. Biographic: Dickens casts a modern eye over his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the writer behind the words. The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots.