#270 | The Inimitable Charles Dickens
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Dickens's Last Decade
He was a conscientious editor of his two weekly magazines, which he published over a period of 20 years. As if that wasn't enough to keep him busy, and let's not forget that he also had ten children. His later work became yet more complex and uncompromising in its attacks on what he saw as the evils of the society that surrounded him. For instance, in bleak house, he attacks the way in which the legal system only serves lawyers and destroys young lives. Whilst one of his darkest novels, dombey and son, involves a brilliant dramatization of how great wealth can eat out the heart of a family.
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