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Justin Cartwright - Christmas
5/5 Justin Cartwright reflects on the place that Christmas occupies in Charles Dickens's work.
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Alexander McCall Smith - Episodic Writing
4/5 Writer Alexander McCall Smith salutes Charles Dickens's mastery of the episodic form.
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AL Kennedy - No Hope of Return
3/5 AL Kennedy explores Dickens' literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.
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Romesh Gunesekera - The Orphan Eye
2/5 Romesh Gunesekera on how Dickens addresses the move from childhood into the world beyond.
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Tessa Hadley - Rooms and Reality
1/5 Tessa Hadley on how Dickens paints the reality of his world through characters' houses.