I love Dickens...

...and have read most of his books with the exception of The Pickwick Papers. The problem with Dickens is that he relates to a world that is no longer chic.

His detailed and heartfelt scenes are considered kitsch if not maudlin and people do not want to be reminded of hardship, poverty, orphans, destitution, and the streets.

I wonder if other realist period writers are suffering the same lack of popularity?

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