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Dickensian   /dɪkˈɛnziən/   Listen
Dickensian

adjective
1.
Of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions).





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"Dickensian" Quotes from Famous Books



... cloudland that lay between him and the empty heavens. The giants of the theatre of our time, Ibsen and Strindberg, had no greater comfort for the world than we: indeed much less; for they refused us even the Shakespearian-Dickensian consolation of laughter at mischief, accurately called comic relief. Our emancipated young successors scorn us, very properly. But they will be able to do no better whilst the drama remains pre-Evolutionist. Let them consider the great exception of Goethe. He, no richer ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw


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