The case of Marshall v Marshall, a name suitably Dickensian, started almost as soon as Marshall died in 1995.
This is the Dickensian era for America's largest minority, representing both the best of times and the worst of times.
Clearly, the modern day cubicle is more human than the Dickensian sweatshop, just as Skype is more personal than a telephone.
As London has grown in all dimensions, authors have chosen to present a segment of it rather than a Dickensian sweep.
He summons sumptuous sounds from his battered guitar, and writes brilliant songs when he isn't fixing Hoover vacuums in his father's Dickensian shop.
Mr Jones, who tends to speak with the precision of a Dickensian solicitor, has turned down the chance to correct his inaccurate comment.
But David, working in his library amid Dickensian piles of documents, turns tyrannical, and falls into a funk that's both painful and instructive to behold.
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To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.
"There is something almost Dickensian about him, " says Mr Double.
His chance to flee their Dickensian gloom comes with the appearance of a magic peach in the garden: he crawls inside, where he finds a posse of insect friends, and travels by air and sea to an improbably benign New York.
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