Charles Dickens, n.Definitions

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

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.