I hadn't known that Charles Dickens' father had been imprisoned in the Marshalsea, at one time, when Dickens was a child. While reading this book is when I found out. This made the book much more realistic and interesting for me. Dickens was writing what he knew. This is what distinguishes between j...
Philistine that I am, I developed an interest in reading this book because of watching the movie on Masterpiece Theater with Matthew MacFadyen.
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