Is Dickens the greatest of English novelists?

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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 HouseGreat ExpectationsLittle DorritDombey and SonOur Mutual Friend…

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  1. 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.

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