”Neither a British nor American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can. I am living in a Dickens atmosphere.”
George Packer tells the fascinating story of Somerset, “a toothpick-thin, boisterous young Burmese” reader of Western literature, and discusses “the special power of the late-nineteenth-century novel.”
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