Who is generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era?
Correct answer: Charles Dickens
Amie Herndon- Matthews
He is my favorite author!
IntenseSloth35155
GeekThePeople, considering that keats was not a victorian writer, oscarwilde was a playwrite, not a novelist. charles dickens is more widely read than lewis carroll. This question makes a lot of sense even if it is subjecctive.
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My ancestors knew him small world one of my distant cousins Hablot Browne drew his book illustrations
Tanya
Dickens grew til ten with his middle class parents. Then he had to stop school and went to work due to death of a parent. He knew poverty then, but worked hard 10 hours a day pasting labels on shoe polish bottles. When old enough, he got a job writing about the happenings in government. He had a passion for writing and telling the plight of the poor.
HazelTwigg
Let us not forget Ebenezer Scrooge!
SeventhAverage4
David Copperfield was loosely based on Dickens' own life
NanaQueenB6 great ga
he was always trying to stop the ills of the world in London I'm reading a book called The Ghost Light by a b Briggs is Charles Dickens and AJ Jones from the Bull Street Scotland Yard it's really interesting he had an inquisitive mind and a gentle soul
JimmyLovesQL
As well they should. Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in the literary world. His works have been adapted for the large and small screen many times. One of my favorite musicals is Oliver!
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I have read just got all his books he is a very great author
Burdman25
Hurts like the Dickens!
Mel
A TALE OF TWO CITIES WAS TERRIFIC. ILL ALWAYS LIKE THAT STORY. HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE THE UPPER CLASSES SEE THE EFFECT WORKHOUSES AND POOR AREAS HAD ON PEOPLE.
Charlie
Tanya, it wasn't due to a death of a parent his father was sent to debtors prison and his mother and sister went with him .
Jenn Natalia
IntenseSloth35155, Oscar W wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey"... it's a NOVEL
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I absolutely love his books, Christmas Carol is my favorite.
Nova
His novels are as close to perfect as an author can get. I know people didn’t really like the original ending of Great Expectations. I thought it fit the characters (especially Pip) better than the rewritten ending. People want a happy ending all the time, but that’s not how life works.
Dobby :)
he really pictured the effects of poverty in the victorian era.
lolirock and anime lover
We read one of his books at school
Sanna Johnson
My favourite one
KTI6
I read A Tale of Two Cities at least once a year for the past 30 years. Still as beautiful as the first time I read it. Still cry when Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine for his beloved Lucie’s sake.
Lisa
Who else loves this game,no I'm not a robot
Shirl
My favorite book will always be A Tale of Two Cities.
Haniah
Amie Herndon- Matthews, he is my favourite author too!
pinkey
I knew this but have not read them.
Melode
I love Dickenson works please sir can I have some more. Oliver twist was and is an object lesson. how to treat children. Oliver was made to be in a workhouse ten hrs a day.i got an a in political science for my term paper.
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Thunderduck,
thanks for sharing this
Justin
one of the very best authors ever 👏
Twiggy
Oliver Twist is one of my faves
petar
I love books 📚
Thunderduck
Trivia: He wrote what he considered his "Christmas" trilogy. "A Christmas Carol," "the Chimes," and "Cricket on the Hearth." The latter was the inspiration for Walt Disney's Jiminy Cricket...
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very much doubtable!
Errick539
Anthony Trollope by a nose.
Tamara
I use to live in Hamilton (VICTORIA). Charles's son immigrated to Australia & moved there with his wife & children. Charles's daughter in-law is buried in the Hamilton Cemetery (she died in a carriage accident).
Rich-Ant Hill
This question is a subjective question. Not everyone thinks Dickens was the best and what are the judgement parameters?
tala
currently reading The Great Expectations
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The 1984 film 'A Christmas Carol' was filmed in and around my home town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. I used to go and watch them filming after school. The production team left Ebenezer Scrooges gravestone in St Chad's church cemetery as a thank you to the townsfolk, which I've visited a few times myself.... google it!!
acidfairy
my great great great etc grandfather was his proof reader. it is the most interesting thing about my family!!
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Amie Herndon- Matthews, just found out I'm..wicked smaht!
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Wonderland Fairy 8,
I got The Tale of Two Cities from my school when I was eight.
Loved it , then they set it for me as my O Level set book .
Magic!!
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he is dancer i hv seen him
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