About the book: year / Charles John Huffam Dickens (English: Charles John Huffam Dickens; 1812–1870) - an outstanding English writer of the 19th century. The most popular English-language writer during his lifetime , in our time he has a reputation as a classic of world literature, one of the largest prose writers of the 19th century. Dickens's work is considered to be the pinnacle of realism, but his novels reflected both sentimental and fairy-tale beginnings. Dickens's most famous novels (published in separate editions with continuations): “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, “Oliver Twist”, “David Copperfield”, “Great Expectations”, “A Tale of Two Cities”».