Feb 07 2012
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Happy birthday, Mr. Dickens
I was trained by my high school English teacher to view Mr. Dickens with some disdain. (Cardboard characters. Plot twist upon plot twist upon plot twist.) However, I have since read and loved Bleak House — arguably the most Dickensian of his works — and the novels of Wilkie Collins, to whom Mr. Dickens was both friend and foil, and must thank Charles Dickens for the pleasure all of those works have brought me.
(Image via NPR; Check out the Google doodle, too)
