Charles Dickens:
Charles Dickens, was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victoria period and responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters. During his lifetime Dickens works enjoyed unprecedented popularity and fame, and they remain popular today. It was in the twentieth century, however, that his literary genius was fully recognized by critics and scholars.
The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, employing cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.
We can also see in Charles Dicken his clever style and introducing a new thematic such as the mix of dramatic with comedic aspects in their writing innovate and giving it a touch ironic uncommon in the Victorian period.
Dickens's work has been highly praised by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, and G. K. Chesterton for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism, though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it as melodramatic, sentimental, and implausible.
