Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist. By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.

《成为狄更斯：一个小说家的创造力》作者 罗伯特·道格拉斯·菲赫斯特

Mr Douglas-Fairhurst observes that almost nothing can be said of Dickens of which the opposite is not also true.

道格拉斯·菲赫斯特发现，几乎所有对狄更斯的评论，反过来说也同样成立。

Mr Douglas-Fairhurst covers much ground, but one of his central ideas is Dickens’s pervasive sense of what might have been.

道格拉斯·菲赫斯特用了不少篇幅讨论这一点，但是书中另一个主要观点是狄更斯时时刻刻感觉到事物似是而非。