Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth-century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

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Charles John Huffam Dickens foi o mais popular dos romancistas ingleses da era vitoriana. No início de sua atividade literária também adotou o apelido Boz. A fama dos seus romances e contos, tanto durante a sua vida como depois, até aos dias de hoje, só aumentou.