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For The Week magazine, Blake named his six best books.
One title on the list:
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Pictures From Italy by Charles DickensRead about another book on Blake's list.
This is a slight book compared with such great works as Bleak House and Little Dorrit, but Dickens was a brilliant journalist and letter writer, and this is a fluent and engaging account of the year he and his family spent in Italy in 1844. He describes his mansion in Genoa as “like a pink jail.”
--Marshal Zeringue