The Life and Times of Charles Dickens by Alan S. Watts

The Life and Times of Charles Dickens

by Alan S. Watts

Studio Editions, 1991, [First Edition], ISBN 1851706372, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations throughout, illustrated title page, large hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners name plate on inside front cover, faint finger marks on front endpaper, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners (see photographs)

“In The Life and Times of Charles Dickens, Alan Watts skilfully organises Dickens’s literary career into three main periods – Early, Middle and Late – covering all fifteen major novels, the Christmas Books and his travel writings.  With an initial chapter on Dickens’s childhood, family life, and his bewildering number of houses, both at home and abroad, and a final chapter on Dicken’s remarkable achievements, this is an absorbing and unique biography.
Alan Watts not only summarises the plot of each novel, but discusses how the story developed, how the characters evolved.  Individual chapters highlight the significance of the many disturbing social issues and upheavals in Victorian England.  Each novel develops not only a general moral theme, but also attacks specific areas in society which Dickens knew were in dire need of reform and for which he fought, politically and creatively.  His targets included the Poor Laws, the workhouses, child labour, prostitution, industrial pollution, and the cholera epidemic...”

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