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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens who are buzz and

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fist shmoop bahs was hiss was one of his pen

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names one of his pseudonyms and actually when he was

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becoming famous people knew bozz on didn't necessarily know charles

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dickens That means it wasn't till later that sort of

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weight and similarly the illustrations to its noble human famous

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as well I'm bringing it up now because the person

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who drew for him was named fizz so it was

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p h i z is the way the engravings were

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signed Those illustrations are incredibly detailed incredibly comical and very

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responsive to what dickens was writing So i just recently

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read one of the novels and you can you know

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dickens describes the scene and you can go go into

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the picture of seventeen people and name each one of

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those people based on the way they look and the

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way dickens described them so the illustrations are incredibly faithful

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to the novels I'm an important therefore to the novels

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and so whenever you pick up your penguin paperback or

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your oxford world's classic or whatever almost always you're going

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tohave a dickens novel with the original illustrations Who are

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buzz and fizz How did fizzes drawings compliment dick in

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stories buzz and fizz versus batman and robin Stay tuned

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