IsabellaLinton wrote:
I read almost all Dickens' novels for school, with the exception of Oliver Twist which I keep staring at on my shelf. My favourites are Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, and some of his short ghost stories. He's a great writer but I usually dread the high numbers of characters, the tropes, and the predictability of his political satire.
I never read any classics at school since I opted out of Literature in favour of something called "English Communication".
I've been trying to catch up ever since.
Do you imagine his tropes were tropes at the time, or became tropes subsequently?
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