{"id":6082,"date":"2017-12-22T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:03:52","slug":"hunted-down-by-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/hunted-down-by-charles-dickens","title":{"rendered":"Hunted Down by Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hunted_down_charles_dickens.jpg\" alt=\"Hunted Down by Charles Dickens\" width=\"720\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hunted_down_charles_dickens.jpg 720w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hunted_down_charles_dickens-300x142.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hunted_down_charles_dickens-500x236.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hunted_down_charles_dickens-520x245.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2BRf6Ak\"><em>Hunted Down<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Charles Dickens is a novella divided into five parts and recently published as a stand-alone Kindle ebook from Open Road Media. <em>Hunted Down<\/em> has all the hallmarks of a Dickens story: characters with evocative names (Julius Slinkton, Miss Niner), wonderful Victorian sentences, and a mysterious plot. Unfortunately, the mystery takes a while to get going and the climax isn&#8217;t up to Dickens&#8217; typical standards. Still, it didn&#8217;t take long to read, it only cost me 99 cents, and the story wasn&#8217;t horrible, only disappointingly average.<\/p>\n<p>For a thorough analysis of Hunted Down (which is almost as long as the story itself!), see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/authors\/dickens\/pva\/pva19.html\">Dickens&#8217;s &#8220;Hunted Down&#8221; (1859): A First-Person Narrative of Poisoning and Life-Insurance Fraud Influenced by Wilkie Collins<\/a> at VictorianWeb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2BRf6Ak\"><em>Hunted Down<\/em><\/a> by Charles Dickens<br \/>\nFirst published in <em>New York Ledger<\/em>, 1859<br \/>\n<em>Kindle edition<\/em> Open Road Media, 2015<br \/>\nPrinted length: 29 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunted Down\u00a0by Charles Dickens is a novella divided into five parts and recently published as a stand-alone Kindle ebook from Open Road Media. Hunted Down has all the hallmarks of a Dickens story: characters with evocative names (Julius Slinkton, Miss Niner), wonderful Victorian sentences, and a mysterious plot. Unfortunately, the mystery takes a while to get going and the climax isn&#8217;t up to Dickens&#8217; typical standards. Still, it didn&#8217;t take long to read, it only cost me 99 cents, and the story wasn&#8217;t horrible, only disappointingly average. For&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Review: Hunted Down by Charles Dickens","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1057,5],"tags":[36,842,310],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-books","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-reviews","tag-charles-dickens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hunted_down_charles_dickens.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1A6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}