Alan Gibbs
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November 2014
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"I have just found a missing part of my brain. I read this book obsessively as a youngster and it influenced much of what I’ve read or written since. I I I could not recall author or title till a goodreads forum angel filled in the blank. I guess it h"
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"Peter Ackroyd, in his ground-breaking biography of Charles Dickens, says that Nicholas Nickleby is "perhaps the funniest novel in the English language". The complete title of the novel is perhaps a bit of a mouthful,
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"Please, when I die, just place a copy of this book on my grave. That’s all I ask—thank you.
The story is a brilliant meditation on how we treat history—how we glorify certain eras and idolize their people, obsessing over times we never lived through, " Read more of this review » |
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