Charles Dickens
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At the age of 12 when his father was in prison for unpaid debts, Charles Dickens worked in a factory where he affixed labels to bottles of boot polish.
Charles Dickens = English writer who depicted and criticized social injustice in such stories as Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol

The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

Mom read everything: Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Pearl Buck.† (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

I'd pick out books that interested me: A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens; Macaulay's histories; The Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru, illustrated.† (source)

She would have much rather read another Charles Dickens book, or Emily Dickinson.† (source) Misty Bernall, She Said Yes, 1999

He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized.† (source)

I was the only kid, white or Indian, who knew that Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities.† (source)

In the case of this particular production, Dan wasn't bothered by the local press; what troubled Dan was what Charles Dickens might have thought of Owen Meany.† (source)

Anyway, he wrote this play called The Christmas Angel, because he didn't want to keep on performing that old Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.† (source)

RAMECK, NINTH GRADE "What's today, my fine fellow?" said Rameck onstage, dressed as Scrooge in the Charles Dickens play, A Christmas Carol.† (source)

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She was a thoughtful, well-read young woman, with opinions on a variety of topics such as the responsibility that came with Britain's military power, the nature of commerce and industry under a monarchy, how to care for the poor and neglected, the sensationalist tendencies of the Fleet Street papers, and the convolutions of the legal system as exposed by the eminent author Charles Dickens.† (source)

—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Dustfinger set out when the night could grow no darker.† (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

Here's a partial list: Ralph Touchett in Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and Milly Theale inhis later The Wings of the Dove (1902), Little Eva in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Paul Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1848), Mimi in Puccini's opera La Boheme (1896), Hans Castorp and his fellow patients at the sanatorium in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924), Michael Furey in Joyce's "The Dead," Eugene Gant's father in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River (1935), and Rupert Birkin in Lawrence's Women in Love.† (source)

Leaving the earbuds dangling over his shoulders, he checked the book list in his hand, then looked at the shelves again: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, twenty-seven volumes, red leather binding.† (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

Scrooge was the miserly capitalist in A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.† (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

...As Charles Dickens said at the beginning of [A] Tale of Two Cities, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'† (source)

Now she was roosting comfortably in the stern, nibbling bits of jerky and reciting random lines from Charles Dickens and 50 Tricks to Teach Your Dog.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune, 2011

Her goddam hat blows off and he catches it, and then they go upstairs and sit down and start talking about Charles Dickens.† (source)

Charles Dickens is an English writer.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

One measure of my love for Our Wonder World was that for a long time I wondered if Iwould go through fire and water for it as my mother had done for Charles Dickens; and the only comfort was to think I could ask my mother to do it for me.† (source)

I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens.† (source)

"Mrs. Moodie," says Reverend Verringer, "has stated publicly that she is very fond of Charles Dickens, and in especial of Oliver Twist.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

—Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Elinor had been driving for more than an hour before she finally reached a town with its own police station.† (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

If someone ever presumed to teach Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy or Robertson Davies to my Bishop Strachan students with the same, shallow, superficial understanding that I'm sure I possess of world affairs—or, even, American wrongdoing—I would be outraged.† (source)

But then, when I met Charles Dickens, he'd already retired and turned the Geographica over to Jules, who in turn recruited me.† (source)

Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business.† (source)

I'll have them send a whole set of Charles Dickens to you, right up the river from Baltimore, in a barrel.'† (source)

Dear Charles Dickens,' he murmured, smiling a little at his own emotion.† (source)

Philip's ideas of the life of medical students, like those of the public at large, were founded on the pictures which Charles Dickens drew in the middle of the nineteenth century.† (source)

Now and then came a flash of cockney humour, now and then some old lady, a character such as Charles Dickens might have drawn, would amuse them by her garrulous oddities.† (source)

OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I: TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH† (source) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838

Hard Times by Charles Dickens Hard Times BOOK THE FIRST — SOWING CHAPTER I — THE ONE THING NEEDFUL 'NOW, what I want is, Facts.† (source) Charles Dickens, Hard Times, 1854

DAVID COPPERFIELD by CHARLES DICKENS PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require.† (source)

Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens† (source) Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1857

PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION I REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require.† (source)

He read all of Charles Dickens (whom he no longer called Dahl's Chickens), and all of Shakespeare and literally thousands of other books.† (source) Roald Dahl, The BFG, 1982

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