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Charles Dickens ( 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

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7 February 1812
Landport, Hampshire, England

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9 June 1870 (aged 58)
Higham, Kent, England

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The Pickwick Papers

Oliver Twist

Nicholas Nickleby

The Old Curiosity Shop

Barnaby Rudge

Dombey And Son

Martin Chuzzlewit

Little Dorrit

Great Expectations

Our Mutual Friends

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The second novel of Charles Dickens was Oliver Twist. The first edition had a longer title, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.

It was initially published in monthly installments that began in February 1837 and ended in April 1839.

Dickens named the character Fagin after Bob Fagin, a fellow employee that young Charles Dickens met when he worked at a blacking factory.

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The first installment of Nicholas Nickleby was published on March 31, 1838 and the last installment was published on October 1, 1839.

Dickens’s mother, Elizabeth Dickens, was the model for the always-confused Mrs. Nickleby. Luckily for Charles, she didn’t recognize herself in the character. In fact, she asked someone if they “really believed there ever was such a woman”.

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The Old Curiosity Shop was published in installments in the periodical, Master Humphrey’s Clock. The first installment was printed in April of 1840 and the last was printed in February of 1841.

Dickens was traumatized by the death of the book’s character, Little Nell. As he was writing the novel he felt as though he were experiencing the death of one of his children. It also brought back painful memories of the death of his sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth.

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Barnaby Rudge was published in installments from February to November of 1841. It appeared in the magazine Master Humphrey’s Clock.

The historical novel is set during the Gordon Riots of 1780.

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Dombey and Son was first published in installments that began in 1846 and ran through 1848.

Dickens gave a reading of the first installment of Dombey to some of his friends. It went very well and gave Dickens the idea of doing public readings.

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Martin Chuzzlewit was first published by Chapman & Hall in installments that began in January of 1843 and ran through July of 1844.

The novel was written after Dickens traveled to America in 1842. The trip left Dickens with a very unfavorable impression of the United States.

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Little Dorrit was published in installments from December of 1855 through June of 1857.

The Marshalsea debtors’ prison plays a large part in Little Dorrit. What very few people knew was that Dickens’s father had been sent to Marshalsea for three months.

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Great Expectations was initially published in All the Year Round, a weekly periodical founded and owned by Charles Dickens. There were nine monthly installments, running from December of 1860 until August 1861.

In the novel, Pip, like Dickens himself, dreams of becoming a gentleman. However, Pip comes to realize that there is more to life than wealth and station.

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Our Mutual Friend is the last novel that Charles Dickens completed before his death.

An interesting feature of the novel is its focus on the “dust” business.

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The Pickwick Papers, also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was the first novel of Charles Dickens.

Chapman & Hall published it in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837.

Dickens worked a very serious subject into comedic Pickwick Papers, that of the injustice of the justice system.

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Important Characters of Dicken's Novels :-

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