In honor of Dickens's 203rd birthday coming up on Saturday, The Herald Scotland lists 10 books worth reading by his fellow Victorian authors. I don't quite get the logic — wouldn't it make more sense to read Dickens on Dickens's birthday? — but it's a good list, anyway, so here it is!
And here's a question for you all: Which Dickens novel do you think would be a good one to revisit in honor of his birthday, and why?
I was disappointed that the article writer did not realize that Gissing, Hardy, and Stoker did not publish until after Dickens’s death, which in my mind does not make them “contemporaries,” (particularly Gissing, who was 13 or so when Dickens died).
I have just finished guiding a six-week discussion of David Copperfield, and have come away from that with a new profound admiration for it as having some of the most subtle characterizations (Betsey Trotwood) and beautiful writing in all of Dickens (except maybe for the Agnes sections). Since it contains some rewritten chunks of the “autobiographical fragment” that Forster published, I think it perfect for honoring Dickens on his birthday.
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