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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Charles Dickens Biography
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast. His father was a clerk in the British Navy pay office, a respectable position, but with little social status. His paternal grandparents, a steward (property manager) and a housekeeper, possessed less status, having been servants, and Dickens later obscured their background. Dickens’s mother came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dickens’s birth, his mother’s father was caught embezzling and fled to Europe, never to return. The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as “the young gentleman.” His father was then imprisoned for debt.
After his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as chore boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.
The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” (later retitled “Mr. Minns and His Cousin”) brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine in 1833. From then on his sketches, in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a unpretentious reputation. Dickens became a regular visitor at the home of George Hogarth, editor of The Evening Chronicle, and in 1835 became engaged to Hogarth’s daughter Catherine. Publication of the collected Sketches by Boz in 1836 gave Dickens sufficient income to marry Catherine Hogarth that year. The marriage attest unhappy.
Charles Dickens NovelsThe Pickwick Papers 1837
Oliver Twist 1838
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1839
The Old Curiosity Shop 1841
Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty 1841
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 1844
Dombey and Son 1848
David Copperfield 1850
Bleak House 1853
Hard Times 1854
Little Dorrit 1857
A Tale of Two Cities 1859
Great Expectations 1861
Our Mutual Friend 1865
The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished 1870
Charles Dickens Short Stories1. A Message From the Sea
2. Doctor Marigold
3. George Silverman's Explanation
4. Going Into Society
5. Holiday Romance
6. Hunted Down
7. Mrs Lirriper's Legacy
8. Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings
9. Mugby Junction
10. Somebody's Luggage
11. Some Short Christmas Stories
12. Sunday Under Three Heads
13. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
14. The Holly Tree Three Branches
15. The Lamplighter
16. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
17. The Seven Poor Travellers
18. The Wreck of the Golden Mary
19. Tom Tiddler's Ground
Other books and works by Charles Dickens
1. A Child's History of England
2. A Christmas Carol
3. A House to Let
4. American Notes for General Circulation
5. Master Humphrey's Clock
6. Miscellaneous Papers
7. Mudfog and Other Sketches
8. No Thoroughfare
9. Pictures from Italy
10. Reprinted Pieces
11. Sketches by Boz
12. Sketches of Young Couples
13. Sketches of Young Gentlemen
14. Speeches: Literary And Social by Charles Dickens
15. The Battle of Life
16. The Chimes
17. The Cricket on the Hearth
18. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
19. The Uncommercial Traveller
20. Three Ghost Stories: The Haunted House
21. Three Ghost Stories: The Signal Man
22. Three Ghost Stories: The Trial For Murder
23. To be Read at Dusk
MY FAVORITE BOOKS
1. Oliver Twist
2. David Copperfield
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. Great Expectations
5. A Christmas Carol
SUMMARY
1. Oliver Twist: Oliver Twist is about a young boy whose mother dies after giving birth to him. He was born in a workhouse where he spends an orphanage life. He later moves to London and get accompanied by other boys.
2. David Copperfield: A young man, David Copperfield tells the story of his youth. He lives happily as a child and gets responsible as he grows up.
3. Great Expectations: Pip, a young orphan lives with his sister and her husband. He later moves to London and befriends a young gentleman.
4. A Tale of Two Cities: Story about England and France that undergoes a period of disruption and chaos. A young woman who has been raised as an orphan learns something strange about her father. She later travels with a longtime Tell son's employee.
5. A Christmas Carol: A person name Scrooge is heartless, showing no feeling for the Christmas. Marley, he sees visions of his past, present and future that inspire him to become a passionately kind and amiable person who sends a turkey to his clerk
THE END
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