Complex sentence: Late in life, Dickens unambiguously retracted his earlier anti-Semitic views and created a sympathetic Jewish character in his novel "Our Mutual Friend", but Dickens' expressions of revulsion at non-European peoples and his advocacy of civilizing savages remains embroiled in controversy.
Split into simpler sentences: Late in life, Dickens unambiguously retracted his earlier anti-Semitic views and created a sympathetic Jewish character in his novel "Our Mutual Friend". However, Dickens' expressions of revulsion at non-European peoples and his advocacy of civilizing savages remains embroiled in controversy.