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Old 10-14-2012, 07:55 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
All of Dickens's novels have happy endings (with the arguable exception of "Great Expectations", perhaps).
I would disagree with the all happy endings statement. Or at least quite a few were very ambivalent. It was not a very happy ending for Stephen Blackpool and Rachael in Hard Times. Not a happy ending for Nancy, Fagin, or really anyone but the title character in Oliver Twist.
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