Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Ch.Dickens was born near Portsmouth on February
7,1812. He was the second child of eight
children. His father was a clerk .The Dickens
family was poor.
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Some interesting facts...
In 1823 the family moved to London, Where Charles
began work for 6 Shilings a week His father was
arrested for debt. Charles was sent to school at
the age of twelve, where he did well. At the
age of fifteen began work in the office of a
legal firm His career was prospering with his
rapid and accurate reporting of debates in the
House of Commons for the Morning Chronicle
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A Glimpse of his creature work

• At that time he began to write novels
• The Pickwick Papers was Dickens first novel
• This book is considered to be Dickens greatest
  novel.
• Charles Dickens wrote a lot of novels.
• Oliver Twist (1837-1838)
• David Copperfield (1849-1850)
• Great Expectations (1860-1861)
• and many others

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Charles Dickens wrote about ordinary people,
whose life he knew very well. In his novels he
wrote about the most burning social problems of
his time, Criticized the social evils.
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His masterpieces...
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His last days
Dickens worked very hard. His health began to
fail in mid-1860s. He suffered a stroke at his
home At Gads Hill, near Rochester, Kent on June
1870 and died the next day. He was buried in
Westminster Abbey next to the other famous
people.