His works, including Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, may be a little too bleak for the bookshop, but nonetheless are considered classics of English literature.
Charles Dickens, author of books like Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, he once wrote in Pickwick Papers, he wrote, poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
Oliver Twist also deals with the plight of children in the care of the state, illustrating the brutal conditions of the workhouse in which Oliver pleads with Mr. Bumble for food.