... , Oliver Twist 163) were common in reading his works. Furthermore, Dickens' works are very sophisticated with difficult plots. The plot in Dickens' Great Expectations, for example, was difficult to understand because of the differing locations and the multiple interactions of the characters throughout the work. As seen in Oliver Twist, Dickens' works may be difficult to follow, but are also easy to relate to, since ... truth becomes an obvious theme. Dickens' works allow an individual to find significance in the modern world by expressing morals that will never become outdated. The moral...

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... Dickens was the greatest and most popular English Author of his time. He introduced a new way of writing realistic fiction stories. Dickens's novels of modern life is shown in Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, show an amazing ability to create living characters. His graphic exposures of social evils and his powers of drawing cartoons and humor have made him very popular among ... the people of his day and ours. His novels have been ... read, translated and sold all around the world in his day and in ours. Some of his stories have ... ...

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... in his many books such as David Copperfield, Little Dorrit. He started his career as a journalist. He wrote chiefly novels such as Hard times, Great expectations , The Posthumorous Papers of the Pickwick Club. He was great humanist and critic of social conditions. The novel Oliver Twist comes from his early writings and it doesn't belong to his best works. This novel was serialized in 1837 ... to describe real life, situations which could happen in reality. He doesn't use any colourful descriptions, words which could make the life of Oliver Twist more beautiful or better. Dickens uses C...

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... and the collection Sketches by Boz (1836) was a success. Soon Dickens was commissioned to write burlesque sporting sketches; the result was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-37), which promptly made Dickens and his characters, especially Sam Weller and Mr. Pickwick, famous. In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, who was to bear him 10 children; the marriage, however, ... in 1844 and in Switzerland in 1846. Dombey and Son (1848) was the first in a string of triumphant novels including David Copperfield (1850), his own favorite novel, which was partly autobiographical; Bleak...

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