Charles Dickens Novels Orbit

When I first picked up a battered copy of Oliver Twist from a secondhand shop, I was a teenager who thought Victorian literature would be dry and distant. Instead, I found a story that felt urgent, angry, and surprisingly modern. That experience taught me something about the staying power of Charles Dickens novels: they were never meant to sit quietly on a shelf. They were written for a mass audience, serialized in magazines, and designed to be devoured. Today, thanks to the