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Charles Dickens

Charles John Dickens, born 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth, England, was an English novelist. After a childhood marked by his father John Dickens's imprisonment for debt and a brief apprenticeship at a blacking factory, Dickens developed a talent for storytelling that translated into some of the most enduring novels in English literature. His writing career began in earnest with sketches published under the pseudonym "Boz," followed by his breakthrough serial The Pickwick Papersin 1836. Over the following decades he released a series of novels and novellas that built his literary l...