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The greatest of all English novelists is Charles Dickens. His range of imagination, his characterisation, his descriptive powers, his commentary on life and society, his humour and satire, and his narrative skill, set him among the best story-tellers in the world.
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Martin, B. (1989). Charles John Huffman Dickens. In: Martin, B. (eds) The Nineteenth Century (1798–1900). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20159-4_33
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