Affluent poetry and novels combined the mystery and awe of real life with charming blissful words. ... The Victorian era was the great age of the English novel-realistic, which was long, thickly plotted and crowded with characters. ... The novels of Charles Dickens, full to overflowing with drama, humour, and an endless variety of vivid characters and plot complications, nonetheless spare nothing in their portrayal of what urban life was like for all classes. Emily Bronte's (see Bronte, family) single novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), is a unique masterpiece propelled by a vision of elemen...

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