Oliver Twist
May 27 2008, Bharat

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ...” wrote Charles Dickens, whose life was a rich mixture of all of the above. Here are the 8 odd facts about the novelist:

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