I’m just reading Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend (main comment so far: there are about a million characters and I can’t remember who is who), and came across this little gem. Silas Wegg has been offered some money to go and read a book for Mr Boffin, who’s illiterate.
“Half a crown,” said Wegg, meditating. “Yes. (It [...]
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A bit of Dickens
1 September 2007 – 10:04 am
Holiday book report: ‘Bleak House’
22 November 2006 – 5:37 pm
By Charles Dickens, obviously. I have to admit, this isn’t really my idea of holiday reading: it’s just too long for that. But I half-inched it from a hotel I stayed at in Quito. It was either that or Harry Potter in Finnish.
It’s odd reading Dickens; sometimes he seems so dated — so sentimental, so [...]