Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel by Francine Prose Entangled and the marginalized—and they have

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Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel by Francine Prose Entangled and the marginalized—and they haveIn the summer of 1857, when British newspapers warned of an approaching comet about to destroy the earth, an unusual looking stranger arrived at Charles Dickens's home, Gad's Hill, in the countryside outside London. Dickens had met Hans Christian Andersen at a dinner party, a decade before, and, in a moment of desperation, had invited him to visit. The visit did not go well. The eccentric Danish author of classic fairy tales, who barely spoke English,