... 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 1837-9 and published in a book form in 1838. Oliver Twist is a small orphan who runs away from ... a lot of money. This Dickens' work belongs to realism. Dickens tries to describe real life, situations which could happen in reality. He doesn't use any colourful descriptions, words which co...

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