Every so often our attention is drawn to some intriguing historical finding or other. In Hard Times, for example, Unitarian Minister Daniel Panger discovers a rare literary treasure in an English chapel in the town of Godalming. Among dust-covered bundles of ledgers and church records in a baptistry he finds "one heavy volume of tooled leather, cracked and green with age..." He opens it and begins reading the journal that Charles Dickens wife Catherine kept while she and her husband visited America. At first, Catherine Dickens is reluctant to put her words on paper, being merely the mate of so celebrated an author. But in the course of her jottings she finds her own voice and becomes downright self-relevatory.
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This is Spurious and I'm Furious,
By Beppe Sabatini (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hard Times: The Lost Diary of Mrs. Charles Dickens (Paperback)
Note this line from the the book's copyright page:The characters, incidents and situations in this book are imaginary, though they have relations to persons who have lived. . . . in other words, this book is fiction, even though the back cover describes it as "historical". It's good that it's labelled as imaginary inside, but unfortuately I didn't notice this until after I'd spent my $$. Save your money.
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This book was a sham!
I applaud the content. It was beautiful...touching. If only it was...true. The information on this book's cover and back cover is misleading, very badly designed. I was deeply disappointed to learn that the diary was fictional after I had gotten to the middle of the book. You can imagine how disappointing that is for someone who is a big fan of Charles Dickens. Besides I don't understand who exactly the author is and what does the "unitarian minister" in hard times have to do with it? Again, this book is confusing. Do not buy unless you are sure you're ok with it being fictional!
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