context: By 2000, O'Brian's reputation was such that his American biographer Dean King was able to place Master and Commander at the start of what he called the author's magnum opus, a twenty-novel series that has become perhaps the best-loved roman fleuve of the twentieth century: [an] epic of two heroic yet believably realistic men that would in some ways define a generation.
source: The author's cast of characters is Dickensian in its scope, but of greater subtlety and sophistication in its portrayal.
reference_original: लेखक का पात्रवृन्द अपनी व्यापकता में डिकेन्स जैसा है लेकिन उसकी सूक्ष्मता अधिक है और उसके चित्रण में परिष्करण है।
reference_flipped: लेखिका का पात्रवृन्द अपनी व्यापकता में डिकेन्स जैसा है लेकिन उसकी सूक्ष्मता अधिक है और उसके चित्रण में परिष्करण है।