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