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Books by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English novelist whose serialized fiction shaped the Victorian era's understanding of itself. Born into poverty and forced to work in a blacking factory as a boy after his father was imprisoned for debt, Dickens drew on that experience throughout his career. His major novels — including Oliver Twist, Bleak House, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities — combine satirical social observation with melodrama and sentiment in a way that made him the most popular writer of his day. He remains among the most widely read novelists in the English language.