two great books remaining to his later career   http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/40255733.pdf?acceptTC=true http://www.dickens-literature.com/l_biography.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_dickens   Charles Dickens Literary style Dickens loved the style of the 18th century picaresque novels which he found in abundance on his father's shelves. According to Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was