Charles Dickens

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Form 10

Osman Ashirov

«Charles Dickens»

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is considered to be one of the greatest novelists.

He was born in 1812 in a poor English family. Charles had many brothers and sisters . His father had many books so young Dickens learned to read very early and spent most of his time reading them.

When Charles was 10 years old, his family moved to London where his father got into debt. Soon his father was put into prison that’s why Charles had to start working. He worked at a small factory in London, pasting labels on bottles. The boy had to work in dreadful conditions for 2 years. 

Then Dickens managed to go to school for some time, however he didn’t learn much there. He liked studying at home by his own or with the help of his father. Later Charles worked as a clerk in a lawyer’s office and at the age of 25 he wrote his first sketch which was soon published by a magazine. Then the magazine published nine other sketches all of which had a great success. The sketches became Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

His books are rather interesting to read. He mostly wrote about the hard life of poor people in Victorian England. Even though he lived more than a hundred years ago, people still read his books with pleasure.

Since then Charles Dickens devoted himself entirely to literature. He wrote such famous novels as Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. All of his books are interesting and humourous even if they often describe the hard life of poor people. 

One of his most influential works ever written was “A Christmas Carol” novella.

Charles Dickens died on June 9th, 1870 and he was buried in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.

He was one of the greatest English novelists whose books are still read all over the world. 

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