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Jane Smiley on Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and Charles Dickens expert Jane Smiley answers a reader's question about why Dickens portrays Madame Defarge as such an unsympathetic character in his novel A Tale of Two Cities.

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Published 02/22/2011

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