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    BECOMING DICKENS

    OCT. 17, 2011

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BECOMING DICKENS

by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

An insightful argument occasionally marred by somewhat tangential and glib analysis. Full review >

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    DROOD

    FEB. 9, 2009

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by Dan Simmons

A lively entertainment, reminiscent of Nicholas Meyer’s Seven-Percent Solution—and a worthy rejoinder to Dickens’s swan song. Full review >

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    CHARLES DICKENS AND THE STREET CHILDREN OF LONDON

    NOV. 29, 2011

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by Andrea Warren

A lively biography and an interesting lens through which to see a venerated author. Full review >

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    THE RAG & BONE SHOP

    SEPT. 1, 2001

FICTION

THE RAG & BONE SHOP

by Jeff Rackham

A tale of initially great but subsequently diminished expectations. Full review >

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  • FICTION

    THE LAST DICKENS

    MARCH 24, 2009

MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

THE LAST DICKENS

by Matthew Pearl

A pleasing whodunit that resolves nicely, bookending Dan Simmons’s novel Drood (2009) as an imaginative exercise in what... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    CHARLES DICKENS

    MAY 13, 2002

NONFICTION

CHARLES DICKENS

by Jane Smiley

A successful attempt to deepen the way we read Dickens, with clues to finding him in his own characters and words. Full review >

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