Don’t get me wrong, I love Dickens’ books and have read several. It was his literary style that brought the plight of the poor and and disrespected classes of Industrial Era UK to the forefront in his stories and the minds of his readers.
While Jane Austen’s novels pertained to the aristocracy and the middle classes, Dickens novels primarily dealt with the lower classes and their plight................
While I like both Austin and Dickens, Thomas Hardy is my favorite author. When his characters did something wrong, they always suffered the consequences.