
Television and movies, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. In addition to the millions of people already deploying the word Dickensian to describe their own and others' lives, many more who have never read Dickens...

Television and movies, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. In addition to the millions of people already deploying the word Dickensian to describe their own and others' lives, many more who have never read Dickens...