Charles dickens

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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is a famous English novelist and one of the best known in world literature, and the chief of the Victorian era, who knew how to handle a master narrative genre, mood,the tragic sense of life, irony, with a algid acute social critique and descriptions of people and places, both real and imagined.
Subsequent reviews, such as George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton,championed his mastery of prose, his endless tirade of unforgettable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. However, it also received criticism from his most extraordinary readers, includingGeorge Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, who pointed out some faults as sentimentality, unrealistic events and grotesque characters.
The popularity of his novels and short stories duringhis lifetime and this is demonstrated by the fact that none has stopped printing. Dickens wrote serial novels, which were the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories waseagerly awaited by its readers. Dickens is well liked by many contemporary writers.
Charles Dickens, not content to write his novels, read them in public and so admirably that the spacious rooms inwhich these readings were verified, were always full of people cheered wildly and increased with these readings in England, United States and France, his reputation and fame considerably.
His publicreadings were characterized by the following:
 There was no standing still or sat (as was the custom of the time)
 He moved from place to place and used for his readings gestures of the arms,hands and legs
 He had his body in continuous oscillation
 gave his countenance most diverse expressions, without displeasing never
 With these gestures, attitude and word faithfully imitated theingenious on Pickwick, the unfortunate speaker of the clubs, the president and judges of a court, the lawyer charlatín, hypocritical devotee, the lover shy, the indulgent parent, the speculator brazen...
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