"From Dickens himself readers wanted more and he gave it, prodigiously. The huge sweep of his novels makes them as extensive as cities, as complex as labyrinths, and as comforting as fires to sit beside. Over the eight hundred pages and, for his first readers, the eighteen months of serial publication, a Dickens novel builds a parallel world to run alongside our own, an ample and welcoming family to be part of our daily lives."
Jenny Hartley, Charles Dickens: An Introduction
A "parallel world" is a good way to describe it. :) 205 years and going strong!! I guess if I had to define "classic literature" with one author, it would be Dickens, for his timelessness.
Posted by: Marian | February 07, 2017 at 09:15 PM