My favorite Dickens novel is Great Expectations, but I like anything he
has written, what I've read, that is!
Patti
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In my opinion, where Dickens really shines is in A Tale of Two Cities. It is a masterpiece even with the descripptions. Also David Copperfield.
Sue S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:18 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Moby Dick
Yep Charles Dickens also got paid by the word for a lot of his novels. Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, and Bleak House for three.
And Les Miserabs by Victor Hugo, was originally a set, and so he goes into graphic and extreme detail about the Battle at Waterloo, sigh.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Advisory Council www.guidedogs.com
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-- Vance Havner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:40 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Moby Dick
The problem with it, and a lot of the novels of that day was they got paid by the word. sigh.
That's interesting. I didn't know that.
I liked ths story when I read it in college. I just didn't like the dissertation on whales, which, of course, is one of the things that's supposed to be make it an important book.
Cindy
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