Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors Released In Time For Bicentenary Of Charles Dickens Birth

Nov. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- New Book, Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors, Released In Time For The Bicentenary Of Charles Dickens Birth

Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors is a novel based on Dickens's visit with his family to Italy. This fictional account of the Dickens family's 1844-5 stay in Italy is recounted through the eyes of Dickens's children and others including his wife Catherine and her sister Georgina.

In December 1844 Charles Dickens, on holiday in Italy with his family, undertakes to give treatment to Augusta de la Rue, the wife of his friend Emile. Already an amateur practitioner in the new science of hypnosis, Dickens essays to evict the spectres that nightly haunt Madame de la Rue’s bedchamber. The consequences of these ministrations are dire, for in banishing Augusta’s phantoms Dickens arouses his wife’s fury and unleashes demons of his own. Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors is based on Dickens’s Italian tour (1844-5). However, the author is kept mainly off-stage, the action being seen through the eyes of various family members, eight bystanders offering differing perspectives on Dickens’s traumatic relationship with Madame de la Rue.

"2012 is the Dickens Bicentenary and this book offers an absorbing sidelight on this icon of the Victorian era," says James, "Both misogynist and philanthropist, he presents an absorbing subject for fictionalized biography.”

Book Information:
Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors
Author: David James
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781463567637
Pages: 283
Published: October 2011

About The Author
David James is the author of more than fifty articles and book reviews. He is a graduate from London, Leeds and British Columbia, and has taught at universities in England, North America, Morocco and the Gulf. As a specialist in Nineteenth Century fiction he has been the recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship and a British Academy Fellowship. Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors is his fifth published novel. He lives in London with his wife and family.

For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:

David James
Email: davejames_writer@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.davidjameswriter.com

Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors is available for purchase online from the author’s website, the publisher, Amazon.com, BN.com and other online retailers.  Bookstores should contact Ingram for wholesale orders.

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