The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Dickens goes off

Nickleby, chapter 48.

Nicholas by now has been a sometime actor and playwright, penning unauthorized translations and adaptations of the works of original authors for a provincial troop.

In this chapter he angrily attacks playwrights who do unauthorized adaptations for the stage of novels of living English authors, running wholly out of character to vent Dickens' own spleen.

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