Word: apophthegm
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...artistic ideals worth speaking about. The sympathy of his readers was the one thing he cared about and ... he went straight for it through the avenue of the emotions." His novels are "enormous stockpots into which the author casts every kind of autobiographical experience, emotion, pleasantry, anecdote, adage or apophthegm. ... In spite of these defects, which are those of masters such as Rabelais, Hugo and Tolstoy, the work of Dickens is more and more instinctively felt to be true, original and ennobling...
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