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The ghosts of Dickens, Wagner, and Proust wander around the lobby of the venerable Danieli Hotel, a former doge’s residence that is one of Italy’s most romantic (the romantic lobby bar offers a moment of rest for the weary).
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.
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.
But that's good news for his fans--it's like saying that Dickens is no better than George Eliot.
The year is 1837--that of Victoria's accession--but we get a sense not of empire or of politely crumpeting tearooms but of decay and disease, of the more-Dickensian-than-Dickens underside of rapid industrialization and urban growth.