Charles Dickens

1812–1870 · English novelist & social critic

Charles Dickens was the pre-eminent novelist of the Victorian age, author of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. Sketches by Boz (1836), a collection of his early journalistic pieces published under the pen name “Boz,” was his first book and predates the novels that made him famous.

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“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”

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