Charles Dickens
plots, his sense of humour. But he is perhaps most famed for the characters he created. His novels
were heralded early in his career for their ability to capture the everyday man on paper and thus
create a memorable character to whom readers could relate, and envision as a real person.
BLEAK HOUSE (1853) belongs to Dickens's greatest works of social criticism. The novel is built
around a lawsuit, the classic case of Jarndyce, which affects all who come into contact with it.
Another novel of Charles Dickens is Oliver Twist, written in 1837-39. Oliver Twist is the first
novel in the English language to centre throughout on a child protagoni and is also notable for
Dickens's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives.