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# Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812 to 1870) was an English novelist and social critic, the author of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. He spent his last years at Gad's Hill Place in Kent, writing in a Swiss chalet in its grounds, and died there in 1870 with The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished.

**Novelist**

## Books

- [The Uncommercial Traveller](/book/the-uncommercial-traveller)
- [Our Mutual Friend](/book/our-mutual-friend)
- [The Mystery of Edwin Drood](/book/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood)