Reviewed by: The Curious World of Dickens by Clive Hurst and Violet Moller, and: Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel by Jonathan H. Grossman Amanda Nydegger (bio) Clive Hurst and Violet Moller, The Curious World of Dickens (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2012), pp. 108, 95 illus., $27.50/15.99 hardcover. Jonathan H. Grossman , Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. vii + 256, 20 illus., $39.95/16.99 hardcover. Charles Dickens had an uncanny way of writing everyday life into his novels, and Hurst and Moller's beautifully illustrated book as well as Grossman's exciting monograph show how integral Dickens's everyday world was to the creation of his texts.
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