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DICKENS WORKS COMBINE BRUTALITY WITH FAIRY-TALE FANTASY;SHARP,REALISTIC,CONCRETE DETAIL WITH ROMANCE,FARCE,AND MELODRAMA;THE ORDINARY WITH THE STRANGE.THEY RANGE THROUGH THE COMIC,TENDER,DRAMATIC,SENTIMENTAL,GROTESQUE,MELODRAMATIC,HORRIBLE,ECCENTRIC,MYSTERIOUS,VIOLENT,ROMANTIC,AND MORALLY EARNEST.HE BELIEVED NOVELS HAD A MORAL PURPOSE-TO AROUSE INMATE MORAL SENTIMENTS AND TO ENCOURAGE VIRTUOUS BEHAVIOUR IN READER COMMUNITY AND ALSO IN GENERAL PUBLIC.IT WAS HIS MORAL PURPOSE THAT LED THE LONDON TIMES TO CALL DICKENS THE GREATEST INSTRUCTOR OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN HIS OBITUARY.