Eben Kruge - Richard Barlow Adams

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Résumé :
How wonderful it is for those who love Christmas to read and hear stories that inspire the happiest of seasons. And no story is as compelling as Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, penned in 1843. But what inspired the Carol? What triggered Dickens' imagination to write a story so unlike anything he had written before-a story about Christmas, a story wrought with flashbacks and flash-forwards, and a story infused with the supernatural? In Eben Kruge, Richard Barlow Adams delivers a page-turning narrative that weaves fact and fiction for a penetrating look inside the life and psyche of Dickens. In 1842, Dickens and his wife Catherine travel to America at the invitation of Washington Irving, a trip funded by Dickens's publisher. Thirty years old and already world-famous, he visits nearly two dozen cities, as far south as Richmond, as far west as St. Louis, and as far north as Quebec. At the end of the five-month trip, exhausted, overly vetted, and less than enamored with the new nation, he makes a final stop at the United States Military Academy north of New York City. While at the Academy, the narrative unfolds. Dickens learns of the man Eben Kruge, an attorney who resides in Cornwall, a man whose black turned to white quite literally overnight. Declaring he must meet the man and know his story, Dickens strikes out for Cornwall early the next morning, oblivious to what lies ahead and risking the secret he intended to take to his grave.

Biographie:
Richard Barlow Adams is a man of faith, a writer/speaker, and a lover of American and world history and historical fiction, Christmas, and all things Dickens. He is the son of an Army officer, the first of three brothers to graduate from West Point, a Vietnam veteran, an Army aviator with a tour in the Middle East, a registered professional engineer, the founder of an international consulting company, and currently the chief strategy officer for Ion Power Group LLC, an innovative eco-friendly renewable energy company. Adams has also served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and as an associate professor at the United States Military Academy....