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Page 156
... Dickens was a Manichee and was much more convinced of the reality of evil than of good . Certainly the rendering of ... Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist ; he was after another kind of reality . It ...
... Dickens was a Manichee and was much more convinced of the reality of evil than of good . Certainly the rendering of ... Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist ; he was after another kind of reality . It ...
Page 159
... Dickens was the wretched little heavy - eyed mite the nineteenth century neglected and who told it just what manner of age it was . It made him without realizing it a violent revolutionary . In novels like Dombey and Son , Bleak House ...
... Dickens was the wretched little heavy - eyed mite the nineteenth century neglected and who told it just what manner of age it was . It made him without realizing it a violent revolutionary . In novels like Dombey and Son , Bleak House ...
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... Dickens novel : they are isolated , self - soliloquizing beings borne along each upon his balloon of individual fantasy . Here , it seems to me , Dickens is much truer to the facts of human behaviour than we are generally prepared to ...
... Dickens novel : they are isolated , self - soliloquizing beings borne along each upon his balloon of individual fantasy . Here , it seems to me , Dickens is much truer to the facts of human behaviour than we are generally prepared to ...
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