Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the most popular English writers of all the times. Many of his novels first appeared in English periodicals and read by the public with real enthusiasm.
He spent his youth in London, in contact with the working and lower-middle classes. The discovery of London was one of his contribution to English literature, and the slums of the great city are described in his novels with realism, humour and sincere pity. His style reproduced also the popular speech, which he was so familiar with.

 

The Pickwick Papers, his first important work, was a picaresque novel which revealed his genius as a comic writer.
A Tale of Two Cities was his first historical novel.
Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times were written with the reforming purpose of social conditions.
David Copperfield is considered his masterpiece and was based upon events of his own life.
In his novels you can read vivid sketches, sincere appeal to goodness and generosity, humour and realism.

LINGUA INGLESE 2^B (2004-2005)
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