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According to G.K. Chesterton — an early and influential critic of Dickens — there is no such novel as Nicholas Nickleby, no such novel as Our Mutual Friend: they are ‘simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed substance called Dickens’ (1906, p. 66).
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Hawthorn, J. (1987). Introduction. In: Bleak House. The Critics Debate. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18505-4_1
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