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Month: November 2024
Classic of the Week: Nicholas Nickleby
David Ellis looks at Charles Dickens’ third novel. Classic of the Week: Nicholas Nickleby If there were a prize for the most unpleasant character in Nicholas Nickleby it would be hotly contested. Prominent among the contestants would of course be Wackford Squeers, the ignorant barbarian who runs a school in Yorkshire for boys whose parents… Read More
‘He do the Police in different voices’
As Charles Dickens’ last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, is adapted for BBC Radio 4, Sally Minogue looks at the novel’s relationship to his world and to ours. I’ve just spent a few days in London, where this blog was very much on my mind. In Our Mutual Friend (1865), as often in Dickens’ novels,… Read More