Check out Google today and you’ll find the latest in the popular trend of Google Doodles, today celebrating the 200th year since the birth of legendary English writer Charles Dickens.
When you mention Charles Dickens, who was born on February 7th in 1812, many of us uncultured types can only think of The Great Gonzo, but there was more to the author than just a book about that Muppet movie. As well as A Christmas Carol, Dickens wrote Bleak House, David Copperfield and Great Expectations as well as numerous monthly cliff hanger style publications before his death at 58 years old on June 9th 1870.
Ever-popular, there has never been a time since his death that the prints have not been reeling off copies of Dickens’ classic tales which were both based in realism and also occasionally referencing the supernatural. Today Charles Dickens joins and elite hall of fame, honoured in his own Google Doodle which features the logo in a swirling handwritten type, with cartoonesque resemblences of some of his most famous characters and this put Dickens amongst the company of fellow authors Jules Verne and Mark Twain, as well as guitar master Les Paul and the colourful characters from Sesame Street.
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