The Legacy of Dickens-A contrary argument

In 1925, Virginia Woolf said "There is perhaps no person living who can remember reading David Copperfield for the first time." This was at a time when Charles Dickens was more than a national monument, it was during the Victorian era, when it was common practice for everyone able to afford it, to read Dickens at all family gatherings, formal events, and every evening after dinner in all households that could around the country.

But in the modern day, however, you may be hard pressed to find someone who has read David Copperfield. Most Dickens read today, is in the form of small works, easy for students to finish in a matter of weeks. A Tale Of Two Cities is still the best selling novel in the world, although the legend of Dickens may not live much longer. Young people, although they may have heard of Dickens, don't really read such literature. They are written in an elegant style of Old English, that is very contrary to the style of writing today. People may not be interested, as well, in the occasionally action-lacking plots. It is also because of technology, that people may not be reading. Books are being replaced by e-books, television and the internet. Books must be understandable and hooking, in order to entice a reader. Dickens no longer presents this, as people and the English language has changed so much over the past century.