![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t quite find the right paintings to explain what I mean, but I know that they’re out there. Trollope took me by the hand and pulled me into his world, introducing me to people, telling me about them, so that I came to know all of them, all of their lives, all of their entanglements.ĭickens, on the other hand, took me into the most wonderful art gallery and he showed me glorious pictures paintings of people and places that told me a story in a very different way. You see, reading Dickens after Trollope led me to compare the two – very different – authors and to appreciate what each man did. Now it’s the book that made me love Dickens, and the book that made me understand why he is held in such high esteem. There were lots of reasons why I picked up ‘Bleak House.’ It was on my Classics Club list, I try to read one Dickens novel a year, it’s a book that any people seem to love …. But after four big books, the first four Palliser novels, I realised that I needed a change, that I needed to read a big Victorian novel written by someone entirely different. I’ve read a lot of Trollope this year indeed I think I’ve fallen in love with his writing this year. ![]()
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