Observer 13 February 1944,
Celebrating the centenary of the publication of the final numbers of
Martin Chuzzlewit.
A couple of things struck me
"The American chapters are a good example of Dickens' habit of telling
small lies in order to emphasise what he regards as a big truth."
Hmmm, sounds like someone else I could name. "All tobacconists..."
etc.
"The mental atmosphere of the American interlude is one that has since
become familiar to us in the books written by British travellers to
Soviet Russia. Some of these report that everything is good, others
that everything is bad, but nearly all share the same propagandist
outlook."
Might stand for some broad shades of opinion in the last year or so.
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