Smiley, Jane. Charles Dickens.(Book Review)

Studies in the Novel | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

SMILEY, JANE. Charles Dickens. New York: Viking Press, 2002. 224 pp. $19.95.

George Orwell argued that what distinguishes Dickens's writing is the "unnecessary detail"; if so, Jane Smiley has written a very un-Dickensian biography. At only 212 pages, Smiley's Charles Dickens--volume 21 in the Penguin Lives Series--provides a refreshing tonic to the exhaustive, voluminous tomes issued by modern-day biographers (Robert Caro's recently published volume 3 of his life of Lyndon Johnson covers ten years of Johnson's life and more than 1,100 pages). Penguin Lives publishes ...

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