![]() Ackroyd's is not exactlyĪ Dickens for the 90's, at least not the 1990's. ![]() Of course, the Dickens story is a great one - the driven, uproarious genius caught in a psychicĭrama of misery and injustice he is also enjoying and exploiting - but we have heard the story before, several dozen times over the years and even within the last decade. Peter Ackroyd is a novelist and biographer of considerable talent, but why he turned that talent in this direction is not clear. ?" Or this: "Familial love can find anĮcho in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens." All in all, maybe not the voice we were hoping for, even if we were hoping for another life of Dickens. It waits for them." Or this: "Can we not say that Dickens captured the soul of the English people. When it speaks, it is liable to say things like this: "There are certain people This new biography of Dickens waddles along like a maudlin elephant that has attached itself to us against our will. ![]() Kincaid has written books on Dickens, Tennyson and Trollope.ĭICKENS By Peter Ackroyd. January 13, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition - Finalīyline: By James R. ![]() The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]()
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