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And then he mused that he wouldn't call Stephen King a great writer in the same sense but would call him a great storyteller in the Dickens tradition (I am not using quotation marks because I cannot claim to remember verbatim).
Likewise for a classic like the Penguin paperback of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities , which any Borders or Barnes & Noble will have on hand.
They are allowed to transcend their particular poverties--of class, gender, or nationality--in a way Dickens granted precious few Micawbers.
Bancroft is so spectacularly abrasive that it's scandalous that she doesn't get the incendiary comeuppance of Dickens' novel--that objective-correlative finale in which the seething, dried-out harridan spontaneously combusts.
But the show's real achievement is in its characters, a range of comic types as vivid as any in Dickens or Shakespeare.