| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - For me the answer is a combination of elements: Dickens???s gift for narrative and story telling; his comedy; his unforgettable characters; his concern for social justice, including all the themes that Pankaj Sharma mentions; and finally, perhaps most important of all, the extraordinary vitality of his language, which comes through even when he is translated into languages other than English.
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