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Title: The Confessions of Charles Dickens

The Confessions of Charles Dickens

A Very Factual Fiction

by Alan S. Watts (Author)
©1992 Others 179 Pages
English Literature & Culture
Series: Dickens' Universe , Volume 1

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
179
Year
1992
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820415338
Language
English
Published
New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1991. 179 pp.

Biographical notes

Alan S. Watts (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.

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