Charles Dickens, born on 7
February 1812, was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of
the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol,
David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and
Our Mutual Friend.
Dickens
enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author.
Much in his work could appeal to the simple and the sophisticated, to the poor
and to the queen, and technological developments as well as the qualities of
his work enabled his fame to spread worldwide very quickly. His long career saw
fluctuations in the reception and sales of individual novels, but none of them
was negligible or uncharacteristic or disregarded, and, though he is now
admired for aspects and phases of his work that were given less weight by his
contemporaries, his popularity has never ceased. The most abundantly comic of
English authors, he was much more than a great entertainer. The range,
compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its
shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in
19th-century literature and an influential spokesman of the conscience of
his age.
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