Charles Dickens
English novelist and social critic whose works, including A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations, highlighted social injustices of Victorian England. He remains one of the most widely read and adapted authors in the English language.
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- Landport
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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Trending topics shown first"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
"And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."
"The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that…"
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Timeline
1719
Born
Birth1793
Died
Death
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