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Old 10-03-2009, 08:04 AM   #12
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Since reading that article and thinking about this and checking out some other info on Dickens I'm finding him/it fascinating all over again and have kind of committed to reading and/or reading all of his work. I've started Hard Times at the moment. One thing I read says something to the effect that he is the only English writer who's novels have never gone out of print. I don't know if that is actually true or not, but it seems very likely.

It seems to me there are three things that make him so popular.

1) he writes about the human condition - things we all feel/fear/are familiar with
2) he creates amazingly interesting characters that are exaggerated but still believable.
3) he writes simply, clearly and understandably.

I'm just realizing that these same descriptions perhaps apply to Mark Twain as well another extremely popular writer.

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