Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and he lived during a very challenging
time for Europe. His stories were very realistic and sometimes very sad to read.
They dealt with how life was for the poor and lower-classes. His art, although
not always pleasant to read, has a unique style and I love the way Dickens put
words together. He lived until 1870 and during his life-time, he wrote several
books. Out of all his works, my favorites are "Great Expectations" and "A Tale
of Two Cities".
"Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost." - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is to Victorian England what Shakespeare is to
Renaissance England: he typifies the period his writings disclose and expose.
The greatest comic genius of his age, Dickens relentlessly calls for reform at
every level, implores us to embrace the disadvantaged for our own good, and
offers the values of a loving heart and the image of a warm hearth as the emblem
of the solution to the cruel and mindless indifference of a society given over
to the pursuit of "money, money, money, and what money can make of life," as
Bella Wilfer says in Our Mutual Friend.
* Gurujee (nickname) is a member of the
Copperfield Forum,
where this text was first published.
