I'm a big fan of Dicken's, or should that be Dickens', or Dickens's, oh blow, scratch that.....
I'm a big fan of Dickensian light novels, though my favourite is somewhere in the middle of his spectrum (does that sound rude to anyone else?): "Nicholas Nickleby".
Not sure if something written after maybe 1950 counts as a classic; a modern classic, maybe.
BTW Harry, I studied Comparative Literature at uni. No way did I read it in the original languages! But that's another discussion, maybe.
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