Charles Dickens was a rich observer of life, people and places.
I love good books.

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it.”
Quotation by J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye