3.2 Defoe VS Dickens
Even if Defoe and Dickens are separated by more than one hundred years, there is something that joins them.
Both of them write realistic novels with linear plots made up of events occurring in a chronological order.
Robinson Crusoe tells his own story and he is able to sum up a lot of years in few words or dwell on descriptions.
“Hard Times” is not an autobiography: nevertheless the third person narrator shows his talent in the long description of a setting, transforming it into a richly detailed fresco.
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