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By the same token, Jack Maggs ' triumphal march burnishes the literary moment to which its author lays proud claim, restoring the 19 th -century English novel, that much-maligned instrument of colonial oppression, to a well-deserved place in the sun.
Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.
Carey's careful separation of 19 th -century England from modern-day anywhere may be the key to our appreciation of the Victorian world, but it is his portrait of Maggs that allows you to collapse that distance and to really settle into his novel.
Carey gives us the flawed, utterly romantic anti-hero of high Victorian fiction--absurdly tall, absurdly shy, absurdly proud, absurdly trusting, Maggs is a sighted Edward Rochester, a kinder Heathcliff.
Both men have protégés: Maggs' is Henry Phipps, a much younger man who we think may be his son.