"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together..."
About 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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