Racism in the work of Charles Dickens For example, in his novel "Bleak House" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his "A Companion to the Victorian Novel". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a "racially repellent" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes "we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal
The Only Journey of His Life The Only Journey of His Life The Only Journey of his Life (Greek: Το μόνον της ζωής του Ταξείδιον) is a short-novel of the notable Greek writer George Vizyinos (also written Yeoryios Vizyinos), released in 1884. The novel was brought out in two parts in the magazine Estia on June and July 1884. The novel has been adapted for the cinema, by the director Lakis Papastathis and recently for the theatre by the director Dimos Avdeliodis. The story has a lot autobiographical elements. The narrator of the story is a ten years boy from a village of Eastern Thrace. At