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Charles Dickens

1812 - 1870

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Dickens has received more than 20,555,588 page views. His biography is available in 161 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 156 in 2019). Charles Dickens is the 39th most popular writer (down from 31st in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 25th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Writer.

Charles Dickens is most famous for his novels such as "A Christmas Carol" and "Oliver Twist".

Memorability Metrics

  • 21M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 161

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tale of Two Cities
18593 / 5
Pickwick Papers
1800
Hard Times
1854
David Copperfield
Boys
One of Dickens's best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens's own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, andeight original illustrations by "Phiz."
1800
A Christmas Carol
1843
Oliver Twist
1838

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Dickens ranks 39 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, and H. P. Lovecraft. After him are Hermann Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Euripides, and Gustave Flaubert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Charles Dickens ranks 1. After him are Kaspar Hauser, Théodore Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Galle, Truganini, Alexander Herzen, Louise of Orléans, Ivan Goncharov, Moses Hess, Sigismond Thalberg, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, and Mirza Fatali Akhundov. Among people deceased in 1870, Charles Dickens ranks 2. Before him is Alexandre Dumas. After him are Prosper Mérimée, Robert E. Lee, Frédéric Bazille, Comte de Lautréamont, Josef Strauss, Francisco Solano López, Alexander Herzen, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Dickens ranks 28 out of 8,785. Before him are Agatha Christie (1890), Thomas Hobbes (1588), Alan Turing (1912), Mary II of England (1662), Mick Jagger (1943), and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947). After him are Margaret Thatcher (1925), Anne Boleyn (1501), Alexander Fleming (1881), James Cook (1728), James Prescott Joule (1818), and Alexander Graham Bell (1847).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charles Dickens ranks 4. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Lord Byron (1788), and Agatha Christie (1890). After him are Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Mary Shelley (1797).

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