Charles Dickens
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- Nicholas Nickleby (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Hard Times (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Great Expectations (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- David Copperfield (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Little Dorrit (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Barnaby Rudge (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Our Mutual Friend (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Pickwick Papers (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Bleak House (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Dombey and Son (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Oliver Twist (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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- A Christmas Carol (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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- Author: Charles Dickens
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Dickens is generally considered to be the preeminent novelist of Victorian England. His novels include Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852-1853), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). His novel Oliver Twist, about an orphaned boy who runs away from a workhouse and falls under the influence of an unscupulous Jewish thief named Fagin, was the subject of a censorship effort in New York in 1949. The case of Rosenberg v. Board of Education of the City of New York involved a complaint made in...
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