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From the days of the heroic Sir Philip (d. 1586) Sydney (d. 1586), this has been a popular name, transcending class barriers: Dickens' Sidney Carton; the comic actor, Sid James; Sid of the huge government advertising campaign when privatizing British Gas.
Supreme at this art are Austen, Dickens, Conrad, James 'n Wharton, Trollope, Collins,... and there are many, many more of these not so terribly strange bed-fellows.
Maggs ' London is Dickens' London, only darker: a city whose humanity has long since run dry and whose juveniles--the Twists and Dorrits and Chuzzlewits and Maggses--are forced into lives of crime.
But if Grant speaks through jaws aristocratically locked, his William Thacker is meant to embody a scruffy, downwardly mobile lifestyle; as a consequence of his integrity, he must share a flat with a cretinously vulgar couch potato called Spike (Rhys Ifans) and face a stream of dim customers who refuse to accept that his bookshop carries neither Dickens nor Grisham.
In a famous essay, George Orwell wrote that what makes Dickens so attractive, despite his failures in characterization and a tendency toward sentimentality, is his decency.