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A world of novel truths. (novelists Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens) (The Creators) (Cover Story)
From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19920831
Author:Boorstein, Daniel J.
The 19th century novelists Balzac and Dickens created works that appealed to the public. Balzac wrote novels about members of French society while Charles Dickens' novels were about the common people of Victorian England.
Balzac and Dickens fed an appetite for fiction as fresh as gossip
As historians added their visions of the past to the human comedy, novelists created wide-angle mirrors for their readers and their times. The rapid improvement of printing technology in the 19th century made the book a popular vehicle for a new reading public, as hungry for an imaginary drama as ...
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