Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest writers. He was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7th, 1812. He was the second of eight children. He was the son of an office clerk. He had a happy childhood and he liked reading very much. When Dickens was only twelve years old, his father went to prison because of financial problems and debts. Young Dickens left school and went to work in a factory. He worked long hours in very bad conditions and he never forgot this terrible experience.
In 1831 Dickens became a newspaper reporter. Soon he started writing short stories for magazines. In Dickens's times novels were usually published in parts in magazines: every week or month a part of the story appeared in the magazine. This went on for many months until the story was finished. A lot of people bought the magazines to read the story. In April 1836 Dickens married Catherine Hogarth. They had ten children. The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's first novel. He finished it in 1837 when Victoria became Queen. The novel was a great success. During his life Dickens met many people, they were young, old, rich, poor, happy, sad, miserable, kind, unkind. He wrote about them in his novels. His books are about poverty and social problems in the Victorian Age. Dickens wrote fourteen major novels. Some of them are Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1849), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861). Dickens travelled to Italy, Switzerland, France and the United States, where he read extracts from some of his novels to the public in New York and Boston. This was an enormous success.
He died on June 9th, 1870 at the age of 58 and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in London.
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Corrected Textmore↓Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest writers. He was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7th, 1812. He was the second of eight children. He was the son of an office clerk. He had a happy childhood and he liked reading very much. When Dickens was only twelve years old, his father went to prison because of financial problems and debts. Young Dickens left school and went to work in a factory. He worked long hours in very bad conditions and he never forgot this terrible experience.
In 1831 Dickens became a newspaper reporter. Soon he started writing short stories for magazines. In Dickens's time, novels were usually published in parts in magazines: every week or month a part of the story appeared in the magazine. This went on for many months until the story was finished. A lot of people bought the magazines to read the story. In April 1836 Dickens married Catherine Hogarth. They had ten children. The Pickwick Papers was Dickens's first novel. He finished it in 1837 when Victoria became Queen. The novel was a great success. During his life Dickens met many people, they were young, old, rich, poor, happy, sad, miserable, kind, and unkind. He wrote about them in his novels. His books are about poverty and social problems in the Victorian Age. Dickens wrote fourteen major novels. Some of them are Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1849), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861). Dickens travelled to Italy, Switzerland, France and the United States, where he read extracts from some of his novels to the public in New York and Boston. This was an enormous success.
He died on June 9th, 1870 at the age of 58 and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in London.
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