"There is no one Dickens novel I could pick over all the others. Dickens
is huge — like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it’s immediately
recognisable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or
horror, or a psychological study of a murderer — or any combination of
these. He’s always much more than you remember — more playful, more
surreal, more campaigning, more sentimental, more Victorian, more good
and more bad."
Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
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