Quote#Books & Reading
... Dickens is to me a writer apart. I have been reading and…
Quote bySidney Dark · 1872–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: (123 pages; reprint of the 1919 edition published by T.C. & E.C. Jack, a subsidiary of the publishing firm).
English (original)
... Dickens is to me a writer apart. I have been reading and re-reading his novels since I was six. I know his characters as I hardly know any of the men and women I have met in the flesh. Dickens is the novelist of the lettered and of the unlettered. The man at the street corner who has hardly heard of Thackeray knows all about and .
— Sidney Dark
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