Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (Land port at Portsmouth, 7 February 1812 – Gad Hill Place in Rochester (Kent), 9 June 1870) was one of the most important English writers during the Victorian era and the first literary chronicler of the city in the middle of the industrial revolution. Until after the first world war he remained England's most popular writer. He gained fame with The Pickwick Papers (The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club) that appeared monthly from 1836. Then Oliver Twistappeared in edited magazine Bentley's Miscellany in 1837-1838, Nicholas Nickleby in 1838-1839, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge both in 1841. His most famous novels are David Copperfield (1849-1850, partly autobiographical), Great Expectations (1860-1861), Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby (book) A Christmas Carol (1843) . A tale of two cities with 200 million copies on number seven of the world's most sold books. [1]  his stories are characteristic of the social evils, the story structure, the cartoonish characters and humor.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === London about 1870, engraving by Gustave Doré.Charles Dickens was born as the second of eight children of John and Elizabeth Barrow. When he was ten, in 1822, moved the family of Rochester (Kent) to Camden Town in London to be closer to father's workplace (the Navy Pay Office in Somerset House) to attend. Dickens made the trip with only the Stagecoach. There were no other passengers and he just had sandwiches, a book and some clothes with him. That ' melancholy ' journey, on a rainy summer day hung and he would later describe in his bundle The uncommercial traveler: "it was raining hard, and never will I forget that smell of wet straw." Camden Town is at that time in the Northwest of the expanding and noisy metropolis. The district and the city inspired Dickens and crawled into his clothes: the crowded streets with carts and coaches, with riders and street vendors, tea stalls between the dining and the waste heaps and the construction sites in the Shoeless and dressed in rags, children ... Dickens would come anywhere in the course of his life: in work houses and tenements, in dark pubs, an opium den and Misty alleys, in slums and morgues, in prisons. Their new home in Bayham Street was with a girl and a subtenant not only crowded, it was also poky. The financial difficulties of his father, an amiable man, played a role. In 1824, his father and the family because of debts in the infamous prison Marshalsea Prison locked up. The 12-year-old Charles left his school and started working in Warren's Shoe Blacking Factory. In that shoe Polish factory, in a dilapidated warehouse at Hungerford Stairs to the shore of the stinking River, he worked ten hours a day and he got to know the working conditions. It was, just as the hurt children's soul, a major theme in his work. [2] The 12-year-old Dickens at work in Warren's Shoe Blacking Factory. At fifteen, he started working at a law firm and taught himself shorthand. In 1835, he became a reporter in the room for the Morning Chronicle and originated from his journalism his first literary work. These descriptions of London and the outdoors were later bundled in Sketches by Boz(1836). ' Boz ' was the nickname of his younger brother Moses always catch a cold. ===London[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Just like David Copperfield or Pip (Great Expectations) was Dickens a migrant. To be a true Londoner, one had to be born within the sound of the church bells of St. Mary-le-Bowkerk. London, a place of extreme wealth and degrading misery, was his Muse with whom he had a love-hate relationship. ' What an amazing place London ' David Copperfield, ' says seemed when I saw it from afar. ' The nineteenth-century London as a place of promise burst at the seams. The population rose as a fortune hunters magnet unseen far. At the arrival of Dickens the city counted one and a half million inhabitants, at his death in 1870 that there were 3.5 million. A Christmas Carol. With illustrations by John Leech.London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First Edition, title page.===Author<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1842, he traveled to the United States, where he pleaded for the abolition of slavery. He left full of enthusiasm but came back disappointed. He wrote down his experiences in American Notes from 1842. In1843, his first and most famous Christmas story: A Christmas Carol in Prose, a story that perform a variety of tasks performed and filmed to date is in. The following years appeared other touching Christmas tales such as The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The haunted Man. In 1844 he visited Italy (Pictures from Italy, 1846), Switzerland in 1846 where Dombey and son (1848) was created. In 1850 Dickens started with its weekly magazine Household Words and he took up residence in Wellington Street 16. Much of his work appeared as a feuilleton in this journal that he edited and in its successor, All the Year Round. The creation of this last journal coincided with the move to Wellington Street 26, a House that still stands today. From 1853 to 1870, Dickens regularly and successfully as for reader. To this end, he edited his lyrics dramatically. In addition to his writing did Dickens to charity, he did campaign for public health, housing and education, he travelled and wandered often. His insomnia and his friendship with some police officers brought him into contact with criminals, night owls, doormen, prostitutes, night workers and homeless people.
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 London
 * 1.3 Author
 * 1.4 last years
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 3 see also
 * A Christmas Carol 4
 * 5 external links
 * 6 References

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickens ' marriage to Catherine Hogarth, that he found uninspiring, ended after 22 years, are influenced by his affair with the actress Ellen Ternan younger. The couple Dickens-Hogarth had ten children. ===Last years<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Charles Dickens jogged from 1860 with his health. The lectures he gave wells it off and took their toll. His last finished novel Our Mutual Friend from 1865 belongs to his best work. Dickens died in 1870 on 58-year-old age, while he was working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He was the intercession of Queen Victoria and against his will in buried in the Poets ' Corner in Westminster Abbey in London. Dickens gave, however, prefer to the family grave in Highgate, where his contemporary Karl Marx a decade later would be buried. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="32" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickens wrote fifteen novels. David Copperfield*The Pickwick Papers (1836)
 * Sketches by Boz (1836)
 * Oliver Twist (1837-1839)
 * Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)
 * The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841)
 * Barnaby Rudge (1841)
 * American Notes (1842)
 * A Christmas Carol (1843)
 * Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)
 * Dombey and Son (1846-1848)
 * David Copperfield (1849-1850)
 * A child's History of England (1851-1853)
 * Bleak House (1852-1853)
 * Hard Times (1854)
 * Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
 * A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
 * Great Expectations (1860-1861)
 * Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)
 * The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished, 1870)