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Jane Smiley on the Connection Between Authors and Their Characters

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about author Charles Dickens and the connections to his characters in A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

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