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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
If you want to ease your way into 'classic' literature, Dickens is your surefire route. Ripping great plots, tons of social commentary, and it's told in a manner for the short attention span [relatively, for the time] of the newspaper reader, as many were published in installments in British papers.
More substantial than today's 'trashy paperbacks' less dense than hardcore old-fogey lit.
A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Our Mutual Friend
You can't go wrong with any of them.
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I read David Copperfield summer 2012. Dickens can run on too and be excessively wordy though his characters are great. Still love some of his stories. Not so much—Hard Times tho'. My favorite so far out of four of his is
Oliver Twist. I love little Oliver though things can get overly weepy and sentimental in parts.
I plan on reading his
Great Expectations next.