The monograph is devoted to the study of the dynamics of the literary style of Ch. Dickens with the the concept of “fancy” (fanciful) as its aesthetic dominant. The research is focused on the fantastic elements at different text levels in Dickens’s later Bildungsroman novels: within the textual layer, the figurative system, and in the general composition of works. The study involves a large amount of factual material. Ch. Dickens’s works are characterized in comparison with the novels of his contemporaries and followers. Although the writer is traditionally recognized as a prominent representative of the realistic trend, many literary scholars appreciated precisely the fantastic “filling” in his realistic prose (V. Shklovsky, I. Katarsky, T. Silman, D. Urnov, H. Stone, J. R. Reed and many others). Given this fact, the author of the book shows what varieties of realism are reflected in the writer’s work and how exactly a huge number of fantastic, paranormal, fairytale details fit into Dickensian realism. Revealing unexpected sides of a seemingly thoroughly studied classic of world literature, the author makes the reader think in a new way about some connections of the English Bildungsroman novel with the fantasy genre, proto-detective and modern media art. As a result, the monograph gives a fresh perspective on famous Bildungsroman works of Ch. Dickens. The book will be of interest to researchers, cinematographers, lecturers, students and all lovers of literature.