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Result? Happiness

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

directed by ARMANDO IANNUCCI

As his life and books showed, and as this effervescent adaptation of his most-loved novel reminds, Charles Dickens was a man of many virtues. But despite being Victorian England’s best-known novelist-abolitionist-philanthropist-journalist-satirist, he was also a nationalist and a racist. Yes, and before some of you start dashing off a letter to the

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