CharactersCharles Dexter Ward
Charles Dexter Ward is the young Providence antiquarian whose investigation of Joseph Curwen becomes the central tragedy of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. His research begins with family history and ends with the bodily return of an ancestor who can exploit their resemblance. The person confined under Ward’s name near the end is not simply the original young man suffering a change of personality. This article includes the novel’s identity revelation.
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