Charles Dickens Wikipedia
Not that it matters extremely considerably, since Dickens is of course a writer whose components are higher than his wholes. He is all fragments, all facts — rotten architecture, but fantastic gargoyles — and never better than when he is constructing up some character who will later on be forced to act inconsistently. Good results came early to Dickens he was twenty-five when his first novel, Pickwick Papers, appeared and produced him one particular of the foremost writers of his…