My favourite English writer (dickens)

Charles Dickens is one of the greatest English writers.

He was born in Portsmouth on the 7th of February in 1812. Charles’s father was a clerk. The boy showed his talents from his early childhood. His parents loved to hear him recite poetry and act scenes from plays and novels.

When Dickens was ten, his family moved to London. Very soon Charles had to go to work as his father was put in prison for debt. Charles was paid very little money and for two years he never had enough to eat. The experience of his poverty was reflected in his novels when he became a writer. When Dickens’s father left prison he sent his son to a private school. After that Charles became a clerk in a lawyer’s office and in his spare time studied shorthand for journalism.

At the age of 19 Charles became a reporter for a newspaper. When Dickens turned 24 he wrote Sketches by Boz (1836) which was accepted by a magazine. Readers were charmed with his humour. In the same year he wrote his famous novel Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club with Mister Pickwick and Sam Weller as main characters.

Dickens devoted himself to literature and wrote many fine novels. His most famous books are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities.

Despite his success in literature Dickens was not very happy. Family troubles and overwork exhausted the great writer and in 1870 Dickens died. He was only 58. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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