The mystery of Charles Dickens
(Book)
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9780062954947, 0062954946
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780062954947, 0062954946
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
In this investigative narrative, Wilson moves from Dickens' death in 1870 back through his career and childhood trauma being sent to work in a blacking factory at age 12. It's clear that Wilson fully comprehends the many complexities of the wily novelist, public performer, and secret lover. Beginning with the mystery of his death, the author re-creates the last day of the famous novelist's life as he made the habitual hour's journey from his home at Gad's Hill, Kent, to his mistress's house in Peckham (places have major significance in Dickens' work). There, he suffered a seizure and was returned to his home to die a respectable death, surrounded by his estranged wife--tortured, as Wilson calls her--and some of his many adult children. Wilson gradually, engagingly unravels the circumstances surrounding his death. "Dickens was good at dying," he writes. "If you want a good death, go to the novels of Dickens." The novelist had been consumed by his love affair with the former actress Nelly Ternan for the previous 13 years and had bought the house where she lived with her mother and sisters. Just that morning, Dickens had been working toward the conclusion of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a book that was destined to be left incomplete, and was saturated with a sense of raging passion for a young, unobtainable girl. (Wilson ably dispels the myth that Dickens did not write about sex.) Wilson writes with precision, intuition, and enormous compassion for Dickens' senses of social justice and outrage, especially regarding children in the mercilessly materialist Victorian era -- Kirkus.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG DICKENS WIL | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 823.8 DICKENS WIL | Available |
Bernardsville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIO Dickens, Charles | Available |
Denville Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG DICKENS | Available |
East Hanover Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG DICKENS | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | B DICKENS | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wilson, A. N. (2020). The mystery of Charles Dickens (First U.S. edition.). Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, A. N., 1950-. 2020. The Mystery of Charles Dickens. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, A. N., 1950-. The Mystery of Charles Dickens Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wilson, A. N. The Mystery of Charles Dickens First U.S. edition., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
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