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All the youthful vigor and exuberance of Charles Dickens is on display in his first two novels. Dickens was only 25 years old after the completion of his first book, The Pickwick Documents (1837), and 27 when he done his second, Oliver Twist (1839). It really is in these early novels that we first encounter the power of his laughter, satire, and willing observational powers. Within 10 years, Dickens would be regarded as the literary genius of the Victorian Age group. Nonetheless it all started with both of these novels. The Pickwick Documents is a comic tour de push, its centerpiece being the Pickwickians who travel about London and the encompassing countryside looking into various peculiarities. The amusing character types and hilarious incidents have become literary staples. Oliver Twist displays much that is autobiographical in Dickens' life experience. The book is noteworthy for the writers' natural portrayal of bad guys and their brutal, sordid lives, as well for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. In many ways, this tale was the personal depiction of London by Dickens that has been world famous, and which would be the template for the remainder of his long job. Listeners must be aware that The Pickwick Documents operates 33 hours and 42 minutes, at which point Oliver Twist begins and proceeds for yet another 17 hours and 31 minutes.
