The style: easy or difficult?!

I have continued reading and thought about the style of writing the author uses. That´s what I will tell you about in this post.
At first I would like to mention that the book is a novel.
Charles Dickens, the author, uses very old and uncommon words. Surely because of the time when the book was written. It was made 1843 and the book I read is the complete and unabridged version.
Furthermore he has a very figurative language and describes lots of situations quite detailed with many adjectives and adverbs. Thus his sentences are sometimes fairly long. Those figurative descriptions make the story very interesting and you feel like you are nearly in the middle of the happening. This absorbs you to the book.
Overall it is rather hard to understand every sentence. All the time I am reading I´m sitting in front of "LEO" (online dictionary). But since I have been doing it for some days, it works much better now.
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