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The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Dickens belongs to the English people.

— Claire Tomalin

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

— Donna Leon

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

— Anne Rice

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

— Claire Tomalin

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

— Jane Birkin

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

— David McCullough

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

— Douglas Booth

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

— Lev Grossman

✗Opposing Perspectives

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

— Robert Gottlieb