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Charles Dickens: A Life

by Site Owner | Mar 28, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs

By Jane Smiley Penguin Books, $14.00, 210 pages The good news has two parts: The book is fresh and it clocks in at 209 pages. What is left to be said of Dickens’ personal life? More ink has been spilt on the man’s existence than blood at Balaclava. One suspects the...

Charles Dickens: A Life

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