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                    You know he got paid by the word, right?
                                        
> 7. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
> 
> Unknown novel by little read author. (This could also have been Great
> Expectations or Oliver Twist, but Copperfield is the one where, for me, the
> disparate elements that make up the wonder of Dickens come together.)
> 

Via Robot Wisdom [1], “Wesley Stace's top 10 books about children aimed at
adults [2]”

Unknown novel?

Little read author?

I'm not sure what they teach for literature across the pond, but here we got
Dickens up the wazoo! I remember reading _A Christmas Carol_ [3] by Charles
Dickens (at 100+ pages, this would be a “short story” by Mr. Dickens) and
finding it okay, but I was also forcefed _Great Expectations_ [4] in 9^th
grade and hated it (and at 500+ pages, this would be a “novella [5]” for Mr.
Dickens). But “little read author?”

I can only hope that Wesley Stace was being droll … 

[1] http://www.robotwisdom.com/
[2] http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,1510772,00.html
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553212443/conmanlaborat-20
[4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141439564/conmanlaborat-
[5] http://teenwriting.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-

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