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Sketches of Young Gentlemen
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Sketches of Young Gentlemen is a satirical collection by Charles Dickens that describes and gently mocks various social types of young men through short character portraits. It suits readers interested in Victorian humour, Dickens's minor works, and nineteenth-century social observation.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. 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. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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