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Bowen, John. 2000. Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit.(Book Review)
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Academic fans of Dickens's early novels will be gratified by John Bowen's Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit, a ringing defense of the novels Dickens wrote in the first half of his career. Bowen, Lecturer in English at Keele University, explains that common readers have always loved the early novels, which exhibit humor of a peculiar freshness along with emotional richness, and discusses Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, and Martin Chuzzlewit. Scholars, on the other hand, have favored Dickens's later works, such as Great Expectations, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend, ...
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