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The enduring popularity of Charles Dickens (1812-70) in the West is nowhere more evident than in America. All of his novels from Pick~~vick
Papers to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, are readily available in good bookstores, and there has been a recent surge of scholarly interest in England's muckraking novelist. Recently published have been a new biography, Dickens: A Life, by Nor- man and Jeanne MacKenzie; a revised paperback edition of Edgar Johnson's Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triuinph;...