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• The greatest novelist of the Victorian Period is Charles Dickens.
• His famous novels:
- David Copperfield,
- A Tale of Two Cities,
- The Battle of Life,
- Great Expectations,
- Our Mutual Friend,
- Oliver Twist,
- The Christmas Carol,
- The Bleak House,
- The Old Curiosity Shop,
- The Pickwick Papers,
- Hard Times,
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
• Important characters of Great Expectations are Pep, Estella, Miss Havisham, Joe Gargery etc.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopedia of Britannica.