Tag: Charles Dickens
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Is The Demand For Dickens As Great As It Used To Be?
Choice quote: The further downtown you go, the less of Dickens the second-hand book-dealers sell. Far down, Gorky, Tolstoy, Karl Marx — serious, revolutionary writers — are the ones who make the hit. Dickens with his come-gather-round-the-fire-and-we’ll-all-have-a-fine-time-spirit seems completely out of touch with the people down there. On the whole, judging from first and second…
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