Classics Retold

Introduction Charles Dickens offers an interesting reading.  But the thick volume and archaic language dissuade any reader.   Once these bottlenecks are overcome dramatic moments of Shakespearean dimensions are availed.   Enough retold versions are available, but after shearing here and there, they look skeleton spirits, without soul, flesh and blood.  Even translation to our own vernacular is not comprehensive, but sheared one. My effort is at sustaining my interest in reading.  Pulps are pleasure.  But, as we progress, we find that they run a dull course and make us drowsy. Preface The novel was first published in 1850.  In its preface, Dickens expressed his regrets in parting with his many companions.  He aso expressed his pleasure in realising his long wish.  He was afraid, that he was going to wear his readers with his personal confidence. It took two years for the author to finish the work. In the preface to 1869 edition he re...