NOUN
- English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
How To Use Charles Dickens In A Sentence
- Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
- Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Charles Dickens
- There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens
- We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille.
- Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
- Coming as it did from cowsheds in London and from the surrounding countryside; it “proved," in the eyes of Charles Dickens Jr, "often the source of, or rather, perhaps, the means of spreading, serious epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlatina.” Archive 2007-12-01
- She likes Charles Dickens' novels - Nicholas Nickleby is her favourite - and after choosing her specialist subject she then had a fortnight to swot up on the writer.
- The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon). What is Literary Fiction?
- There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. Charles Dickens
- Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens
