My favorite characters are deft impressionist sketches that are archetypes bordering on caricatures. Cartoons basically. You find them in unusual places. Dickens is literary but his characters are basically cartoons.
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Oh interesting. I only discovered him in the last five years and fell immediately in love.
Even small English libraries in India tend to have a complete collection. They circulate heavily. Half my nerdy friends from college are deep experts in the Wodehouse canon, can quote extensively, and many like writing Indianized pastiches.
