Category: Quotes about Dickens
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The magic of ‘Great Expectations’
Not everyone appreciates the magic of Great Expectations, but that's the thing about magic: it doesn't…
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Helplessness to passion
"Let us also speak of Dickens, who is often undervalued because he hits the eternal verities…
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Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens!
“Charles Dickens was born at midnight on February 7, 1812. . . . It was reported…
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The shock of Dickens
I was reading today about Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's upcoming book, Becoming Dickens (to be released next month…
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Charles Dickens, flashy dresser
The blog Past Is Present shares a rather amusing diary entry from a bank cashier who…
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The art of enjoying everybody
Smollett was coarse; but Smollett was also cruel. Dickens was frequently horrible; he was never cruel.…
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Eat your Wheaties
Today one of my favorite contemporary novelists, Jan Karon, is coming out with a new novel.…
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Huge like the sky
"There is no one Dickens novel I could pick over all the others. Dickens is huge…
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Oh no you didn’t, Henry James!
Henry James called Charles Dickens “the greatest of superficial novelists’’ and went on to write words…