While most of his contemporaries have fallen by the wayside, their books relegated to library stacks where dust gathers upon them untouched, Dickens remains read and revered, almost every word he wrote – and he was no slouch – still in print and widely available.
Dickens and a tale of two sisters
POSTERITY, that most cruel and incorruptible of judges, has been kind to Charles Dickens, the 200th anniversary of whose birth fell yesterday.
While most of his contemporaries have fallen by the wayside, their books relegated to library stacks where dust gathers upon them untouched, Dickens remains read and revered, almost every word he wrote – and he was no slouch – still in print and widely available.
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