1. Charles Dickens

2. Charles Dickens (life) Charles Dickens, an English writer. was born in Portsea in 1812. It was the second of eight children. During his childhood, the family was forced to move to London, where Charles began an unhappy period. At the age of twelve he was sent to a factory pasting labels on blacking (the economic situation of Dickens was disastrous because of the inability of the father who was briefly imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison). Between 1829 and 1830 he fell in love with the daughter of a banker, but the story ended because of social differences between the two. He began to devote himself to writing until he was twenty-six published the Evening Chronicle in monthly installments, the novel "Papers of the Pickwick hangover," which made ​​him famous in the landscape of English fiction. In the meantime, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the director of the newspaper. In 1858 he separated from his wife permanently placing a newspaper ad and accusing her of never having been able to look after the children and families. In 1859 he founded a new journal called All the Year Round, which had great success. In late 1865 he went again to America for a tour of the reading of his works. His health grew worse day by day. Eventually he was diagnosed with an attack of paralysis. On June 8, 1870 he suffered a stroke and died the next day. He was buried in Westminster Abbey in the Poet's Corner.

3. SOME OF HIS WORKS

6. A Christmas Carol The Dickens tale tells the story of a businessman, Scrooge, miserly, selfish, and who neglects his family and is unable to appreciate the little things like the heat that gives Christmas. It is no coincidence that the entire episode takes place on the night of the vigil.

7. HARD TIMES The novel "Hard Times” describes Coketown (ie Preston), an industrial town in North Manchester, in the '40s. Here the times are "hard" not only because of poverty, working conditions and the class struggle, but because of infertility, barrenness and waste of human life.

8. David Copperfield It narrates the story of a young boy at the hands of a bad stepfather and of a tyrannical schoolmaster.

9. GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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