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Charles Dickens
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The major biographies of Charles Dickens
Charles Dicken's journalistic Career
Dickens as a famous English realistic writer.
The Dickens's most famous novels
English literature of the nineteenth century
The map of London of Dickens's time
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The Victorian age might better be described, however, as one of
prose. High Victorian literature (1830-1880) is dominated by Charles
Dickens and William M.Thackerey. Charles
Dickens (1812-1870) Is an English novelist, considered by many to be the
greatest one of all. His high reputation rest on his creation of range
of memorable, often odd, characters (e.g. Scrooge and Mr. Pickwick), on
his descriptions of the bad conditions in which poor people lived in the
19th century Britain (which helped to bring about social reforms), and
perhaps above all on his ability as a story-teller to make his readers
laugh and cry. His novels include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver
Twist (1839; based on Dickens own harsh boyhood), Nicolas
Nickleby (1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), Dombey and Son
(1848), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), A Tale
of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1861), and many others.
Dickens, a man of ken social conscience, used his books to
portray the suffering of the working class at the time of the Industrial
Revolution. His novels often tell the stories of young children who work
hard to escape a life of poverty. Many of the stories were set in London
and his novels show how the city changed during his lifetime. He mocked
and denounced the social e
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