Continuing through Bleak House, which is terrific, but long, I have been thinking about Dickens. Many people characterize Dickens as a man who solely desired the moneys; he was extremely popular, therefore not a great artist. (I can't tell you how many times you hear this ridiculous claim made about Shakespeare, too, I mean come on...Shakespeare?) Others just don't like him, as on this message board of folks ("Charles Dickens, and all his goofy-ass character names and lame-ass plots, can bite me." Magwitch and Snagsby resent this comment).
Anyway, I was reading about Dickens on Wickipedia, and was blown away by the fact that "the popularity of his novels and short stories during his lifetime and to the present is demonstrated by the fact that none has ever gone out of print."
Dickens wrote 20 novels, and none of them has ever been out of print. Amazing.
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p.s. i know that discussion board is like 6 years old. but that quote is priceless.
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