I previously wrote about Charles Dickens take on knowledge in “Hard TImes”. Yesterday was his birthday – England 1812, Charles Dickens, whose works include A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, is generally considered the greatest Victorian-era novelist.
I don’t think there are any Anglo authors who have taken the condition of society into popular literature in the same way since, although perhaps he was just a man of his times.
http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/hardtimes/
