The Dickens Bicentenary is upon us, and the British actor and writer Simon Callow has a characteristically eloquent and heartfelt appreciation of The Master, ending with this:
The reason I love him so deeply is that, having experienced the lower depths, he never ceased, till the day he died, to commit himself, both in his work and in his life, to trying to right the wrongs inflicted by society, above all, perhaps by giving the dispossessed a voice. From the moment he started to write, he spoke for the people, and the people loved him for it, as do I.
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