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A Tale of Two Cities

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Those who disparage Dickens point to his improvised plots with their indebtedness to the farce, melodrama, and spectacle of the nineteenth-century stage; to the characters with their idiosyncrasies and ludicrous exaggeration; to the pathos with its descent to sentimentality, even mawkishness. His defenders, while admitting the structural weaknesses of his early novels, maintain that his later works, notably Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, show a marked development in craftsmanship. They admit also his fondness for caricature, but add that he produced some unforgettable pen portraits. Finally, while aware of his emotionalism, they show that many of this contemporaries applauded a tale of it moved them to tears. Whatever the burden of critical opinion, probably no English Novelist has been more widely read than Dickens.

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820 DIC a

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan., 1958

Collation

xxiv; p.584; 24 cm

Language

Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

717200019

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English Literatures/Kesusastraan Inggris

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Cet.1

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Novel

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