After reading The Mystery of Charles Dickens, I wished that there had been some sort of a similar kind of explanatory book that we were tasked to read before actually reading a Dickens story in English class.
Did our teachers actually think that with our smart gizmos and all and totally different lifestyles, we could understand David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations? In our chats post class, most of us were befuddled by the characters' behaviours and the choices they made.
Reading this book perhaps made me understand a little on why the characters behaved the way they did, in those depressing Victorian years for the under-priviledged.
One thing that quite surprised me from the book, was that Charles Dickens had embarked on paid public readings of his books in American cities. It felt rather similar to Swift going around the world on her Eras Tour.
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