Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classe…

Nick Hornby
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Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) ✨ Nick Hornby (2004). The Polysyllabic Spree, McSweeneys Books
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