Dickens "moments of uncompensated kindness" AGTD p.167 Paper Penguin

[Mark Kohut]

 Nushra MohamedKhan wrote this (and more good stuff):

from Phillips, et. al.:  “the pleasures of cruelty and
> the cruelty
> of pleasures” are “touchstones of modern life”? 

Uh, and, ah.....what major writer known to all who get this post explores
JUST this question in scene after scene in book after book?  

and many other questions, of course.