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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Oliver is a young boy that lived in a workhouse until Mr. Bumble kicked him out, he met many friends which are the Artful Dodger and Fagen, follow the events that Charles Dickens in one book, Oliver Twist.