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Charles Dickens (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Although he wrote stories, essays, and theatricals, Charles Dickens is chiefly remembered for his many novels.

Achievements

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens dominated the literary world like few writers before or since. His career coincided with the first half of the reign of Queen Victoria, before Charles Darwin and Karl Marx had eroded that century’s liberal consensus....

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