Example sentences for: maggs

How can you use “maggs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Maggs is given an out.

  • 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.

  • Jack Maggs' burgeoning dignity and the choices he makes at novel's end give 19 th -century Australia the bourgeois stature it lacked in Dickens' novel, allowing the country to become a place of hope rather than of exile.

  • Book -- Jack Maggs: A Novel , by Peter Carey;

  • 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.


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