It's hard to have much opinion on a book the author left half finished. In my edition (pantheon books, 1980) the story is completed by Leon Garfield. He did an okay job. I hear there are better editions, but I moved on.
Dickens! Even when he is infuriatingly verbose, he is still eminently readable. There were so many wonderful characters -- Mr. Crisparkle, Miss Twinkleton, Durdles, Helena Landless, Mr. Grewgious, the Billiken. I was even fond of Rosa and poor Edwin, who were probably the most boring of the lot. Is ...
Only a half-Dickens. Still brilliant.
Well . . . it picked up toward the end. I'm sorry that Dickens never finished this work; two characters, Mr. Datchery adn the Puffer PRincess, introduced just before Dickens passed, added a bit of depth to the novel that it was lacking in earlier chapters. Mr. Crisparkle, who came off as such a ninn...
Unfinished works of art are often sources of great mystery. Mozart's Requiem, Fitzgerald's The Love of the Last Tycoon, a whole raft of Hemingway novels foisted upon the public post-Papa, Herge's Tintin and Alph-Art, several projects of Orson Welles, the list goes on and on. The common question is, ...
it's been a while since i've read any dickens and i don't know if i was properly in the mood for this one -- i found his padding to be a little frustrating, perhaps because i knew that i would come to the end of the book without there being a resolution. especially frustrating were the pages dedicat...
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