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Dickens, Charles

  1. A nineteenth-century English author. His works include , , , , and numerous other novels . He created many memorable characters , including Bob Cratchit, Fagin , Jacob Marley, Samuel Pickwick , Ebenezer Scrooge , and Tiny Tim . Dickens, a man of keen social conscience, used his books to portray the suffering of the working class at the time of the Industrial Revolution .


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So she has chosen the path as her literary heroes, Charles Dickens and George Orwell: the entertaining but didactic novel.

We have a great screenplay that I wrote with Andrew Davies, the guy that created all the great Charles Dickens series for the BBC.

American Notes for General Circulation By Charles Dickens Charles Dickens visited the city and described it in American Notes.

Charles Dickens went on a book tour in 1842 and kept notes about his travels.

Excerpted and adapted from The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater.

In this awakening to the brighter possibilities whom should she clasp to her heart but her old friend, Charles Dickens?

Charles Dickens's son, with his wife and daughter, followed a little later.

What an appetising volume could be written of the inns and innkeepers of Charles Dickens.

Amongst authors noted as early risers must be included Charles Dickens.

Whenever Charles Dickens introduced this tale among his Readings, how beautifully he related it!

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