The Mystery of Charles Dickens, (Hardcover)

from jillrhudy

A. N. Wilson's biography of Dickens is not linear, and is the better for it in my opinion. The death of Dickens is where the book begins, and his death is the touchstone to which it returns. Dickens's death is shrouded in mystery because he may have been with his young mistress when he died. The ...

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The life of Charles Dickens was as convoluted and as mysterious as any of his novels, which should not be surprising given that his novels were in many respects inspired by his life. A.N. Wilson explores all this in his 2020 book “The Mystery of Charles Dickens.” Dickens, Wilson tells us, was in...

from gothamajp

The mystery here for me is what exactly this book is about. For one thing it isn't is an informative biography of Dickens. The author uses the events surrounding Dicken's final years and death as a foundation to present a series of speculative ruminations on how the true reflection of Dickens' ...

from antao

Is Dickens a jerk through the lens of 2020, or is he a universal jerk? So, Rousseau giving up his 5 children to a foundling home whilst writing books about the proper way to raise children - objective jerk. But Dickens sending his wife away and threatening to disown his children if they visited h...