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I hadn't known that Charles Dickens' father had been imprisoned in the Marshalsea, at one time, when Dickens was a child. While reading this book is when I found out. This made the book much more realistic and interesting for me. Dickens was writing what he knew. This is what distinguishes between just a good book and a classic (which I can say this is a classic).
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When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interes...more
This experience of reading Dickens has made me aware of the apparatus of construction, with its many subplots and characters, as influenced by its intention to be serialized in magazine form. There's a bulk here that could be whittled down to a smoother read. By the middle 300 pages, characters and background and experiences are all coming up at once without the reader knowing to what end. By the last couple of hundred pages, the story is moving along. All in all, reading it was arduous.
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