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Celebrating Charles Dickens: His Most Unforgettable Characters and Why They Endure
Some authors give us great stories. Others give us characters who quietly move into our heads, set up furniture, and live in there rent-free. Charles Dickens absolutely belongs to the second group. His plots were rich, dramatic, but it’s his characters who linger years after the last page. With their wonderfully eccentric names and even more unforgettable personalities, they don’t just exist in the story—they take over. Dickens didn’t simply describe people; he let them speak, stumble, scheme, hope, complain, and love their way into our hearts. They feel less like fictional creations and more like old acquaintances we’ve known forever. And since he’s our Author of the Month, what better excuse to wander down memory lane and revisit some of the unforgettable personalities who made Dickens’ world (and ours) so lively? Also read: 10 Bookstagrammers Who Make Classics Feel Alive
Why Jules Verne Still Matters: The Classic Author Who Predicted Tomorrow
Jules Verne wrote about the future long before the future learned to exist. In the nineteenth century, when much of the world was still being mapped and understood, Verne imagined submarines gliding beneath oceans, humans travelling to the moon, and explorers pushing the boundaries of science and geography with fearless curiosity. Today, more than a century after his death, Verne remains not just a literary giant but a visionary whose works continue to shape how we imagine technology, exploration, and human ambition. His stories endure because they do something timeless: they transform wonder into possibility. Also read: London Through Charles Dickens’ Eyes: A City That Became a Character
London Through Charles Dickens’ Eyes: A City That Became a Character
For Charles Dickens, London was never a neutral backdrop. It breathed, muttered, accused, and occasionally embraced. Streets sulked under fog, alleyways whispered secrets, and grand avenues paraded wealth with theatrical arrogance. To read Dickens is to walk a city that is always watching its inhabitants, shaping their fates as surely as any human antagonist or ally. London, in his novels, does not simply host the story—it is the story. Dickens wrote at a moment when London was swelling into a modern metropolis, chaotic and unequal in equal measure. Factories, railways, slums, courts, and counting houses coexisted in uneasy proximity. His genius lay in transforming this sprawl into something intimate and legible: a city with moods, morals, and memory. Also read: Intimidated by James Joyce? Here’s What You Need to Know Before Reading Him
