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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Actually, in the USA, Dickens is an author English teachers use to torture 14 year old boys with. The books are big, have no car crashes or spaceships in them, and everyone talks and talks and talks. It isn't until we are older that some of us learn to appreciate just how cool he really is. Dickens could use a good publicist and a marketing plan.
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Dickens wasn't that keen on the US either. It seems to have been that old issue - Copyright. He rather felt that he should have been paid something for his books by American consumers and said so on his first trip to the US. The American public opinion whipped up by the press was that he should be grateful that he was being read and that expecting payment was pure greed. Dickens' resulting disillusionment comes over loud and clear in American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit.