... Switzerland, and Paris as well as maintaining residence in London. He published Pictures from Italy (1846), Dombey and Son (1848), and his 'favourite child,' David Copperfield (1850). The fifties marked a return to journalism for Dickens, and increasing attention to social problems. He published Bleak House (1852-53), Hard Times ( ... and remembered as Charles Dickens. He fame is well deserved. From the pen of this great author came such characters as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, Mr. Pickwick, and Little Nett. Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsm...

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• Grade Level: High School

... within the class system could be reconciled with authentic desire and with moral feeling. This conflict in the lives of men, often with autobiographical reference, is played out in Dickens' David Copperfield (1849-1850), Thackeray's Pendennis (1848-1850), and Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). Like all forms of Victorian fiction, the Bildungsroman must be classified by gender, for this was the age ... oppression, when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory. Dickens's good, bad, and comic characters, such as the cruel miser Scrooge, the aspiring novelist David Cop...

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... hundred pages in length. This is an unprecedented task for any author before Dickens. His novels include A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, and David Copperfield. He is a man of heart and passion when it comes to his writings. As Dickens himself said, " Constituted to do the work that is in me, I am a man full of ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School