Remembering Dickens

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While many consider William Shakespeare as one of the most important writer of our time for others it is Charles John Huffam Dickens.

Charles Dickens, one of the greatest fictional characters writers of the last millennium left a legacy of outstanding literary masterpieces.

London itself has his own Museum - Charles Dickens Museum, a place where was once his London residence.

Life-size bronze sculptures of Dickens stands in the cities of Pennsylvania - USA,
Sydney - Australia and near his birthplace in Portsmouth - England.

To read Charles Dickens descriptive scenario, landscape and urban geniuses is to experience London of the mid 1800's.

In his young age a voraciously reader, Charles Dickens had an active writing life of 37 years (1833 - 1870) when his first story A Dinner at Poplar Walk, was submitted to the London periodical Monthly Magazine in 1833, from that time onwards Novels, Short Stories, Christmas Tales, Fiction and Non Fiction, Journalist articles, plays , essays and collaborations, form Mr Dickens own library of his own works.

Charles Dickens famous Bank of England £10 pounds notes homage.

There are many resources available in the world wide web and one is able to find as much details information about Charles Dickens work as it is necessary.

Since a wide amount of resources has been written about Charles Dickens genius, this post is just a guide, a homage from a writer and an insight into the quick - fast reading culture of blog posts, to remind us the work of someone which by many is recognized as one of the greatest literary genius.

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair...

extract from the book Tales of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens in 1859

Together with William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens is undoubtedly one of the greatest British writers that has ever lived.