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Unread 02-08-2012, 09:25 PM
Kevin J MacLellan Kevin J MacLellan is offline
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Three Cheers for Charles Dickens!

I will never forget the sermon on Justice and proper etiquette delivered in high dudgeon to the Queen's Court by Jack Dawkins, the "Artful Dodger,"upon the occasion of HIS arrest in Oliver Twist. I can still laugh outload about it today, though I haven't seen the pages in too many years. Anyone who has not enjoyed much by Dickens is missing out on great Art and a good deal of life to boot.

Others may have been more subtle in their assessments of social reality (Elizabeth Gaskill and George. Eliot, for instance), but none was more whole-heartedly sincere and unequivocal in his compassionate vision, and none that I know of was a better writer/creator of characters.
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