Christopher Hitchens' Last Vanity Fair Piece: A Look at Dickens

For his last piece in Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens shows his appreciation for Charles Dickens and his works. Hitchens writes about the various characters in Dickens’ books, how he wasn’t exactly fond of America, but that didn’t matter because we fell in love with him, and — if it’s possible — one sentence to sum up Dickens’ writings:

‘Whatever you do—hang on to your childhood!’ He was true to this in his fashion, both in ways that delight me and in ways that do not.

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