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.

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».

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» ( ) - « David Copperfield» ( ) - « Great Expectations» ( ) and many others…

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.

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.