Book Review: Conversations With Dickens

Conversations with Dickens

A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

by Paul Schlicke

Watkins

Watkins Publishing

Biographies & Memoirs , Nonfiction (Adult)

Pub Date 12 Nov 2019

I am reviewing Conversations With Dickens through Watkins Publishing and Netgalley:

Charles Dickens was the equivalent to a Pop Star. Before radio, cinema, television and the internet he attracted international adulation on an unprecedented scale. His first novel the Pickwick papers was written when he was only twenty four years old. The Pickwick Papers was a publishing sensation going through multiple editions, abridgments, translations, adaptations, dramatizations and spin-offs throughout the century.

In this imagined interview you run into the Ghost of Charles Dickens at the beloved Inn of Mr Pickwick while sheltering from a Summer downpour. While chatting you become swept away by his vigors, warmth and humanity feeling as if you’ve known him all your life.

Charles Dickens was a great novelist who continues to attract international education on an unprecedented scale. He cultivated an intimacy with his readers, and after he died many of his admirers felt that they had lost a personal friend.

In Conversations With Dickens you get to sit back and listen to this master conversationalist talk about everything from work in a boot-polish factory to lecture tours in America.

I give Conversations With Dickens five out of five stars!

Happy Reading