Charles John Huffam Dickens
FRSA (/ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer
and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional
characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the
Victorian era.
He was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social
commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, A
Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two
Cities and Great Expectations.
The writings of Charles Dickens were exceedingly influenced by his own experiences and the social and political conditions of England in the 1800's. After a tumultuous childhood, Dickens devoted most of his life in a whirlwind of writing journals, novels, periodicals, and making speeches.
He was a man of creativity and passion, and he used these gifts (along with his incredible imagination) as fuel for his novels. His father was John Dickens.He married to Catherine .
Dickens . Surprisingly he was left-handed.
Dickens . Surprisingly he was left-handed.
The most popular Charles Dickens book A Christmas Carol.Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol
in response to British social attitudes towards poverty, particularly
child poverty, and wished to use the novella as a means to put forward
his arguments against it. .His other famous works .
- David Copperfield. ...
- Great Expectations. ...
- Oliver Twist. ...
- Bleak House. ...
- A Tale of Two Cities. ...
- The Pickwick Papers. ...
- Hard Times.
- David Copperfield relates the story of a young boy's growth and development into maturity. It is written from the point of view of the mature adult who recounts his own obstacles and the obstacles of those around him and how it all shaped his life and his beliefs.
- The Pickwick Papers. .
Samuel Pickwick is a kind gentleman who establishes the Pickwick
Club, whose goal is to examine and research the stunning specimens of
human life. Together with other members of the club (Nathaniel Winkle,
Augustus Snodgrass and Tracy Tupman), Samuel sets off through the
English countryside.
- A Tale of Two Cities.
A Tale of Two Cities is
an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris
before and during the French Revolution. ... The story is set against
the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of
Terror.
- Great Expectations.
Great Expectations
follows the childhood and young adult years of Pip a blacksmith's
apprentice in a country village. He suddenly comes into a large fortune
(his great expectations) from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society.
- Oliver Twist. .
The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver
travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a
gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
- Hard Times – Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
- Bleak House. .
The English novel Bleak House
by Charles Dickens is a satirical story about the British judiciary
system. Esther Summerson is a lonely girl who was raised by her aunt and
is taken in by John Jarndyce, a rich philanthropist .
- A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas.
... When Scrooge gets home, he is visited by the ghost of his old
business partner Jacob Marley – and then by three ghosts! They are the
Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future.Kindness and generosity
are major moral values in this book. Scrooge's lesson is about caring
for the people around him. Marley tells Scrooge that people should be
his business, and that caring for his fellow man should be more
important to him than making money. The messages are that people are important.
Great
Expectations, published in serial form between December 1860 to August
1861 and in novel form in October 1861, is widely considered Dickens' greatest literary accomplishment.
Charles Dickens did not win any awards during his lifetime. At the time he lived, from 1812 to 1870, awards were not as commonly given as they are..
After suffering a stroke, Dickens died at age 58 on June 9, 1870, at Gad's Hill Place, his country home in Kent, England. Five years earlier, Dickens had
been in a train accident and never fully recovered. Despite his fragile
condition, he continued to tour until shortly before his death.
DAVID COPPERFIELD
great dickens.
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