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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.