"Dickens" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dickens and other models served only to teach him his art. "Finally," says Prof. Pattee, "Harte was the parent of the modern form of the short story. It was he who started Kipling and Cable and Thomas Nelson Page. Few indeed have surpassed him in the mechanics ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... his own interest, the captain is noteworthy in constituting, with Ralph Bigod (see page 27), a sketch (possibly unknown to Dickens) for Wilkins Micawber. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... a sample of filial humor much more subtle than that indulged in by Charles Dickens, who pilloried his parents in print, one as Mr. Micawber and the other as Mrs. Nickleby. Dickens told the truth and painted it large, but Francois Arouet dealt in indiscreet fallacy when he endeavored to give his father a ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard
... Russia, imitating the writers of other lands, had painted the Jew as a monstrosity. Pushkin's prisoner, Gogol's traitor, Lermontoff's spy, and Turgenief's Zhid (Jew) were caricatures and libels, equal in acrimony, and not inferior in art, to Shakespeare's Shylock and Dickens's Fagin. But now the best and ablest men of letters signed a protest against such unjust and ...
— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin
... the dickens may that be to do with you?" he inquired. "And who may you be to walk aboard ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
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