London as Dickens saw it

NPR has a review of The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders. She's quoted as writing, "Dickens would describe all of [London's] qualities as though no one had ever seen them before. . . . And [afterward] no one would be able to see them again except through his eyes."

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