How to Heal the Pain of Loss According to Charles Dickens

  Throughout the history of literature, there’s been one particular author who stood out for an exceptional gift. Charles Dickens outlined the most amazing characters and the most abhorrent emotional universes. Love, hate, melancholy, sadness, longing, disappointment, loneliness, regret. His books are true compendiums of human emotions. For example, particularly unforgettable was the character of Pip in Great Expectations. The evolution of the shy orphan who suddenly found himself blessed by financial help from an unknown benefactor is required reading for every generation. In its pages, we discover characters like Miss Havisham, a woman who was abandoned at the altar…