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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels then captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years, including, A Christmas Carol (1843), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861).
"""The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads."" --William Makepeace Thackeray"
