Reblogged from Crossing the Border:
Joyce Carol Oates reviews Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin in the New York Review of Books:
Is Dickens the greatest of English novelists? Few would contest that he is the most English of great English novelists, and that his most accomplished novels—Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend…
It is so subjective-a novelist-one important factor is if you enjoy their work.It needn’t be “important”in someone else’s estimation.