Charles Dickens, n.All

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities was the best-selling book of all time for a long spell (200 million copies)

Charles Dickens only worked 9am to 2pm and wrote his 28 books and over 200 essays without working longer than 5 hours a day.

Charles Dickens is a writer whose style is impossible to speak in praise, as It jerky, ungrammatical and created by himself in defiance of rule.

Charles Dickens’ novels were hugely popular even among the illiterate poor. They would pool their money to hire a reader, and then gather together to listen to the stories.

Dickens coined a number of words including abuzz, the creeps, and butter-fingers

Charles Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

Charles Dickens is a writer who has never played any significant part in any movement more significant than that of a fly on a wheel.