Charles Dickens
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Most Influential Person Across History
English writer and social critic
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Why Is Charles Dickens Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles John Huffam Dickens 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. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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What Are Charles Dickens's Academic Contributions?
Charles Dickens has made the following academic contributions:
- American Notes
- A Tale of Two Cities
- David Copperfield
- Bleak House
- Little Dorrit
- The Chimes
- Our Mutual Friend
- Great Expectations
- What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
- Three Ghost Stories
- The Uncommercial Traveller
- The Signal-Man
- The Schoolboy's Story
- The Poor Relation's Story
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Life of Our Lord
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
- The Frozen Deep
- The Cricket on the Hearth
- The Child's Story
- The Battle of Life
- Pictures from Italy
- No Thoroughfare
- Nobody's Story
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Mugby Junction
- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
- Master Humphrey's Clock
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Dombey and Son
- Barnaby Rudge
- A Christmas Carol
- A Child's History of England