Dickens in America in the 1850s. Miriam thinks Dickens would have been pleased to see the rebuilt monument. Ron Dale tells Miriam that Upper Canadians make it very clear that they distinguish themselves from Americans. Miriam travels to Toronto where she meets Dickens collector Dan Calinescu of "Boz and Friends Rare Books". His collection of over 5,000 items includes two original letters written by Dickens, a drawing of Nicholas Nickleby drawn by Catherine Dickens that looks a lot like her husband, first editions and playbills, including one from "The Frozen Deep" at Tavistock House. Miriam admits she is envious. In Montreal, Miriam tours
The Hundred Brothers house are like. Within these confines, however, can be found "a remarkably complete catalog of the things that men do and feel among men":Football, fisticuffs, food fights, chess playing, bullying gambling, hunting, drinking, pornography, pranking, philanthropy, power tools, homosexual cruising, anxieties about incontinence, penis size and middle-age weight gain. "The book also, despite its brevity, contains a deftly telecoped genealogy of human knowledge and experience, reaching from pre-history up through a very belated present day in which civilization seems on the brink of collapse." The Hundred Brothers The Hundred Brothers is a 1997 novel by American author Donald Antrim. The