Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... Dickens was a moral writer ; he made the careless and the selfish realize their own faults ; but he did not tell ... Dickens's fertility failed , he abandoned the Christmas Books ; and Thackeray took them over . “ There's no denying the ...
... Dickens was a moral writer ; he made the careless and the selfish realize their own faults ; but he did not tell ... Dickens's fertility failed , he abandoned the Christmas Books ; and Thackeray took them over . “ There's no denying the ...
Page 18
... Dickens is one's man . Dickens is my man . He is my man , less for his sentiment , less for his moral fervour ( urgent though this is ) , than for his wisdom and his arabesques . When he made Dr Jeddler discover , for example , that ...
... Dickens is one's man . Dickens is my man . He is my man , less for his sentiment , less for his moral fervour ( urgent though this is ) , than for his wisdom and his arabesques . When he made Dr Jeddler discover , for example , that ...
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... Dickens's genius he could not accept Dickens's fundamental assumption that a man's name and looks are god - given clues to his personality . " There is nothing truer , " says Dickens's narrator in Hunted Down , " than physiognomy ...
... Dickens's genius he could not accept Dickens's fundamental assumption that a man's name and looks are god - given clues to his personality . " There is nothing truer , " says Dickens's narrator in Hunted Down , " than physiognomy ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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