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Charles Dickens: The Major Novels (Penguin Critical Studies)
Charles Dickens The Major Novels - Penguin Critical Studies Author:John Lucas In his greatest novels, Dickens is a humorist, social commentator, caricaturist, satirist and critic of his age. As well as being highly entertaining, his work constantly presents the reader with contradictions and challenges, using fiction to convey truth. — From Oliver Twist to Our Mutual Friend, Dickens produced novels in whi... more »ch human values are set against the powerful forces of an emergent industrial and commercial society. Whether society is embodied in the prison system of Little Dorritt or the legal system of Bleak House it is always subject to Dickens's highly critical eye.« less