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Like Dickens' Abel Magwitch, Jack Maggs has been exiled to the Australian backwaters.
Carey's cheerful ham-fistedness turns out to be just what is called for to correct Dickens' lugubriousness.
' ” In Bleak House (Chapter XXIV) Dickens may cause some readers to blush when he wrote of Mr. George's blush that “He reddened a little through his brown.”
French provided - ot , as in Mary-ot and Philip-ot , whence the surnames Marriott and Philpott ; and -in or -on , which could turn Mary to Marion, Alice to Alison, Dick to Dickon (whence Dickens ), and Rob to Robin (whence Robbins and Robinson ).
Though there is much that Carey takes from Dickens, he manages to separate his story from its archetype quite easily.