The Confessions of Charles Dickens: A Very Factual Fiction (Dickens' Universe) - Hardcover

Watts, Alan S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820415332 ISBN 13: 9780820415338

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

This book consists of twelve chapters of supposed first-person confessions by Charles Dickens written on twelve separate days in 1870, beginning on January 23, and ending on the morning of June 8, the day of Dickens's fatal seizure. Some of these recollections and reflections are fictitious, but everything is based on known facts, or opinions expressed in speeches or letters, and evidence either in his novels or elsewhere for the author's original conjectures.

About this title

About the Author:

The Author: Alan S. Watts is a retired member of the British Civil Service. After retiring in 1979, he devoted his time to the worldwide Dickens Fellowship, becoming General Secretary in 1976, and President in July 1990. He has published articles in The Dickensian, and in 1980, in his capacity as Academic Adviser to the Dickens Centre at Rochester, UK, he published a short «Children's Introduction to Charles Dickens». To help raise funds to restore Dickens's old home, he published Dickens at Gad's Hill in 1989.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0820415332
• ISBN 13: 9780820415338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179