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The green walls of my bedroom would fade away and we became other people in faraway worlds
A new collection from Penguin Classics takes fourteen stories from the last decade of the writer’s life
Revisiting a classic Civil War novel on its fiftieth anniversary
Thirty years ago, two intriguing books by the writer appeared just a few months apart
The novel is as much a historical artifact as a work of fiction
Dickens wrote it in six weeks, amid explosions of laughter and tears at his desk
The poor bloke was on his arse. But I could see that evening he was definitely on his way back. He had the survivor’s glint
He has revealed that he himself was as flawed as any of his antagonists
The author skewered the pretensions of would-be intellectual travelers
