FEW IMPORTANT POINTS ON THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS

Charles Dickens was born in PORTSMOUTH and belongs to the VICTORIAN AGE

He was the first editor of the newspaper THE DAILY NEWS

PICKWICK PAPERS was the first novel of Charles Dickens.

DAVID COPPERFIELD is the most autobiographical novel of Charles dickens.

Dickens’s novel HARD TIMES deals with the life of a circus child named Sissy Jupe and also the memorable character named Grad grind Figures

Charles Dickens’s novel A TALE OF TWO CITIES can be considered as a Historical Novel.

LONDON AND PARIS are the two cities dealt in the Dickens’s novel A TALE OF TWO CITIES.

EDWIN DROOD was the novel that Charles Dickens left unfinished.

Dickens’s characters are generally FLAT.

EDGAR JOHNSON"S (CHARLES DICKENS: HIS TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH) is the best biography on Charles Dickens.

“”His novels belong entirely to the humanitarian movement of the Victorian era.””- W.H. HUDSON holds this view.

T.S.ELIOT compared Dickens with Shakespeare in making “”a character as real as flesh and blood.””