pickThis last finished novel of Dickens has the playfulness of (and hints at breaking the 4th wall like) Pickwick, but shows a maturity of purpose in exposing wrongs and a changed (for the better) view of Jewish people since Oliver Twist. I think it deserves to be better loved and more often read than it is and can only suppose it is its length that keeps it from being so. Myself, I thoroughly enjoyed it. #readyourkobo @CBee
Ruthiella I agree. I loved this one too. But I was bothered on a second read with the treatment of Bella and how she is “tested”. 3d
Lcsmcat @Ruthiella Yeah, Dickens was not a feminist. But I can grant him the grace of being of his own time, not mine. And I feel like he was moving in the right direction. So many of his women were one dimensional. Bella actually grows and changes, and in a believable way. Maybe if he‘d lived longer he‘d have made the leap away from the Madonna/whore idea of women. 3d
