English novelist of the Victorian age who wrote about the poor of industrial England. Chinese readers know 雾都孤儿 (Oliver Twist), 双城记 (A Tale of Two Cities) and 大卫·科波菲尔 (David Copperfield).
Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens's representative works.
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In 1907–09 林纾, who knew no English, put five of his novels into classical Chinese while a collaborator retold them aloud. Their Oliver Twist was titled 贼史, 'A History of Thieves'.
