DICKENS

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Tfw you will never write like him.
This is the face of the inimitable. Master of fiction, plot, characterization, metaphor, imagery, humor, pathos, wit - all unparalleled.

Championed by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Freud, Hardy, Kafka, Orwell, Jules Verne, Robertson Davies and innumerable others - inspiring every truly great writer from Benito Perez Galdos to Quentin Tarantino. Claimed by Socialists and Capitalists, Protestants and Catholics, Left and Right. Hated by Henry James and Virginia Woolf (AKA The Masterfully-Pretentious Yawn-Inducers).

Nabokov: "If it were possible, I would like devote the 50 minutes of every class meeting to mute meditation, concentration and admiration of Dickens."

Thackeray once threw a copy of Dickens' "Dombey and Son" across the room and complained: "There's no writing against such a power as this! One has no chance!"

Tolstoy even taught himself English so he could read Dickens in the original ffs.