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→Use of Christian concepts: Dickens expressly referred to an "after life" 18 times, sometimes hyphenated and sometimes not.
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→Childhood: and wrote his first story at age 9.
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→Adulthood: Dickens was an enormous celebrity in London and gave hundreds of public presentations that were enormous entertaining and humorous. Despite this, some perceived him to be an unhappy man underneath the surface.
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A Christmas Carol - a novella about a miserly Scrooge, who repents after three ghostly visions
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→Use of Christian concepts: Dickens expressly used "infinite" and "infinity" -- which historically is a Christian concept -- more than 100 times.
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Dickens used the initially Christian concept infinity more than 100 times.
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More than 75 movies are based on his novels.
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→Quotes: "What if I am steeped in poverty? You lighten it, and we will be poor together," by a character in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', Dickens' third novel.
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→Quotes: Ironically, the phrase "what the dickens" originates not in reference to Charles Dickens, but with the only playwright who surpassed him: William Shakespeare.
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The most-read British author of the 19th century, Dickens wrote 4.6 million words and is the sixth most-cited in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Recognition of the "Unborn" - Dickens refers to the "unborn" child 21 times, including multiple references in many of his major novels.
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and merits 6 full pages in the ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.
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He is buried at Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
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Dickens was devoutly Christian and wrote ''The Life of Our Lord'' for children, but felt he had to keep his faith and book private by prohibiting the publication of this work until the last of his children ultimately passed away,
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