Charles Dickens-famous europian author of victorian england

Any discussion about the finest European Authors of the Victorian England would surely remain incomplete without a discussion on famous author Charles Dickens. She is one of the most famous Victorian writers of English literature. Charles Dickens was born in the year 1756 in Portsmouth in Hampshire district of England. The major works of Charles Dickens are mainly set in the back drop of post industrialized England are have received accolades for their florid social realism and and dexterous portrayal of characters with a satirical comic touch.

The first novel of Charles Dickens was Pickwick Papers which was published in the year 1936 Among the famous novels of Charles Dickens the most well acclaimed perhaps is the autobiographical David Copperfield.

David Copperfield is considered as a all time great novel of English literature. In David Copperfield Charles Dickens made skillful use of a elaborate epic like plot and autobiographical elements which presents the stories of a number of denizens of a the post industrialization England. The other major works of Charles Dickens include novels like Great Expectations,Little Dorrit, Bleak House and Tale of Two Cities. Most of the novels of Charles Dickens are set on the backdrop of contemporary urban England.

One of the dominant themes of the works of Charles Dickens is social maladies of Victorian England like Child Labor, and economic exploitations by entrepreneurs poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. Not other author apart from Bernard Shaw has drawn such lucid and vivid picture of the maladies of the Victorian England. However there are historical novels of Charles Dickens like Tale of Two Cities which is set in France at the eve of French Revolution This novel is a fine testimony to the wider reading and versatility of Charles Dickens. Famous author Charles Dickens was not only highly successful author commercially but she won accolades for his dexterous use of autobiographical element, limited social realism, his satire and his fine use of incredulous coincidence.