In an 1841 letter, Charles Dickens claimed that his greatest ambition as a writer was “to live in the hearts and homes of home-loving people, and to be connected with the truth of truthful English life.” No other novelist of the era was so at home within his readers’ affections. Dickens’s fans felt an unshakable connection to his characters: after the last installment o (...)
April 23, 2010
Books
A Mutual Friend
Charles DickensMichael SlaterYale University Press, $35, 696 pp.
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