Who Is Him
About Charles Dickens
Painting of Dickens in Boston, 1842.
What makes Charles Dickens stands
out from other novelist?
Charles Dickens has a very distinct writing
style.
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Florid and poetic.
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Strong comic touch.
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Profuse linguistic creativity
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Social commentary
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Likes to use cliff hanger endings to keep readers
interested
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Episodic
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870)
was an English writer and social critic. He
created some of the world's most
memorable fictional characters and is
generally regarded as the greatest novelist
of the Victorian period. During his life, his
works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by
the twentieth century his literary genius was
broadly acknowledged by critics and
scholars. His novels and short stories
continue to be widely popular.
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CHARLES DICKENS
“The Greatest Novelist of the
Victorian Period”
CHARLES
DICKENS
“The Greatest Novelist of the
Victorian Period”
Oliver Twist
It's a coming-of-age story about an orphan.
It's one of the most famous works by
Dickens, known for its portrayal of
criminals.
“The creative novel Oliver
Twist, written by Charles
Dickens in 1838, defines a
classic of all times..” Bianca
Kramer
Adapted into film and musical plays
Dickens’ Greatest Hit:
Oliver Twist
Introduction
The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist,
who endures a miserable existence in a
workhouse and then is placed with an
undertaker. He escapes and travels to
London where he meets the Artful Dodger,
leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets.
Naively unaware of their unlawful activities,
Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly
criminal trainer Fagin.
Oliver Twist has been the subject of
numerous film and television adaptations,
and is the basis for a highly successful
musical play and the multiple Academy
Award winning 1968 motion picture made
from it.
Quotes from Oliver Twist
• “But death, fires, and burglary, make all men
equals...” Ch. 28
• “It opens the lungs, washes the countenance,
exercises the eyes, and softens down the
temper... So cry away.” Ch. 37
• “Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes,
are more questions of coat and waistcoat
than some people imagine.” Ch. 37
Bleak House, another novel by Charles Dickens.
His another novel, Bleak House, is held to be
one of Dickens' finest novels, containing one
of the most vast, complex and engaging
arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in
his entire canon.
Charles Dickens’ notable works
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Great Expectations
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Bleak House
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David Copperfield
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A Christmas Carol
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A Tale of Two Cities