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Reaching Naples in 1845, Dickens was both fascinated
and appalled, and his record of his travels
conjures up a city teeming with life and brightness
while rife with poverty, crime, superstition
and a craze for gambling
and appalled, and his record of his travels
conjures up a city teeming with life and brightness
while rife with poverty, crime, superstition
and a craze for gambling
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Reaching Naples in 1845,
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Dickens was both fascinated
and appalled,
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and his record of his travels
conjures up a city
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teeming with life and brightness
while rife with poverty,
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crime, superstition
and a craze for gambling.
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Movie Summary
Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that inspired their novels.