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2 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
2 days ago · While you can describe a story that's written in the style of "Oliver Twist" or "Great Expectations" as Dickensian, it's more common to use the adjective when you talk about poverty or extreme social inequality, subjects that Dickens famously examined in his novels.
3 days ago · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
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1 day ago · We had a fabulous walk through Dickensian London seeing his house, sites from David Copperfied, Little Dorrit and Oliver Twist. And as we wandered through so many places which remain from the time of Dickens’ life and scenes of his novels we ended our great tour the George & Vulture which is mentioned no less than 20 times in the Pickwick Papers.
4 days ago · We found 40 solutions for Case of unusual Dickensian family following pop singer. The top solutions are determined by popularity, ratings and frequency of searches. The most likely answer for the clue is PAULWELLER.
3 days ago · Andrew O'Hagan to Scarlett Thomas: 12 of the best books of 2024 so far. From a Dickensian state-of-the-nation novel to a "wildly original summer thriller", these are BBC Culture's picks of the ...
2 days ago · A Dickensian Christmas (2016), a staged lecture and reading produced by Andrew McKinnon exploring the story behind A Christmas Carol. The show was presented by Tama Matheson, and featured carols performed by Tahu Matheson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, and the Australian Youth Choir.
- DictionaryDick·en·si·an/dəˈkenzēən/
adjective
- 1. of or reminiscent of the novels of Charles Dickens, especially in suggesting the poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters that they portray: "the back streets of Dickensian London"
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