Charles Dickens 200 - congratulations!

It's Charles Dickens's 200th birthday today - he was one of the most successful and influential authors of the 19th century. The power of his stories and his characters is still visible today, for example from the sheer fact that so many films have been made of his novels. The most famous are probably these three:

• Oliver Twist
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations

I can recommend all three of them.