... he called on later to portray characters with remarkable realism. As a newspaper reporter Dickens distinguished himself; out of eighty or ninety he was acknowledged as the best. When the Morning Chronicle expanded, Dickens jumped at the chance for a staff position. He later commented to his biographer John Forster that he "went at it with a determination to overcome all difficulties, which fairly ... , legislation which Dickens felt institutionalized ill treatment of society's least fortunate. Bentley put out the book in three volumes in 1838. Though Oliver Twist was a huge financial and...

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