Author Charles Dickens is best known for his memorable ... sprawling plot and unpredictable swerves between realism and romance. Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (1999), by John Bowen ...

Suppose Charles Dickens had died in 1850 ... the detective story—Bleak House stands as a landmark of Victorian realism, yet also opened the gates toward future literary experiments.

Tomlin's book Charles Dickens, 1812-1870 ... Among his contemporaries, he was unique for his realist portrayals of poverty and social injustice, and for his satiric attacks on the British bourgeoisie.