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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Nearly halfway through American Notes and it's as grim a read as the Dickens fiction works I have chosen to avoid. Almost the entire first half of the book is taken up by descriptions of visits to lunatic asylums, orphanages and prisons - I wonder if his wife ever said to herself "What the Dickens is this kind of holiday?!"  |
I read that a couple years ago just to complete having read all of Dickens. Definitely a weird one!