It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.
Christopher HitchensTag: ambition personality biography winston-churchill larger-than-life
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him."
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]
Tag: sherlock-holmes characters novels realism presence dickens larger-than-life
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