Charles Dickens was an English author and social critic in the Victorian era known for his novels like A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations. Some of his most memorable characters were created to shed light on social issues in London. Over his career, Dickens wrote 15 novels and many short stories that have since been adapted into films and plays.

1. Charles Dickens
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2. Who was Charles Dickens?
Charles Dickens was an English
author, writer and social analyst,
who is thought to be the greatest
novelist of the Victorian Period,
and the creator of the most
intriguing characters of all time.
Dickens’ full name is “Charles
John Huffam Dickens”.
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3. Early Life
Charles Dickens was born on the 7th in
1812 in Landport Portsmouth, England.
Dickens left school to work at a factory
after his father was thrown in Debtor’s
Prison.
Dickens’ formal education led to live a life
of literacy with editing a weekly journal
writing 15 books and many short stories.
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4. How he became famous
Dickens in 1836 projected to fame
after publishing “The Pickwick
Papers”. After a few years Dickens
was an intearnational, prominent
writer of literacy.
Dickens was renowned for his good
humour but also they way he could
give a characters so much depth
and detail.
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5. Why did Dickens Write?
Dickens was motivated on by the ideas of fairness a social
equality and law. Charles Wrote books because he wanted to
see a change in London.
Charles also wrote short book because he thought of them as
full of humour and joy.
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6. What Dickens Wrote?
Dickens wrote many famous novels some of which have been
remade as movies and adapted for a comical or child friendly
way.
Charles altogether wrote an outstanding 34 novels in his
lifetime which have all become true treasures of literacy.
Charles was working on another novel when he died called
the “Mystery of Edwin Rood”!
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7. Christmas Carol
“A Christmas Carol” is the story of an old man who hated Christmas and
was visited by three ghosts of Christmas past each explaining the values of
Christmas. This book by Dickens was one of his showcase pieces, has been
made into many movies including by Disney and also a Muppet’s Tale.
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8. Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is one of Dickens’ more tragic and evil stories. Based around
a young orphan, Oliver, who lives a life of toil in a Workhouse. Oliver
escapes to London, where he meets, Artful Dodger a young member of a
juvenile gang of pickpockets. Oliver is then taken to Fagin the trainer of
the boys, where he joins not knowing what the gang do. The story has
been made into many movies and plays over the past.
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9. Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a story of Victorian literature based
on an adolescent orphan named, Pip, it is a bildungsroman
or coming of age novel. The book is set in the early 1800’s
around the area of Kent and London.
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10. Dickens in Australia
Though Dickens never visited Australia he was particularly
interested in “The land down under” As the Editor-Chief and
‘Conductor’ of a daily newspaper article of “Household Words”
he wrote numerous articles about Australia.
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11. Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Great_Expectations
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/
How_many_books_did_Charles_Dickens_write
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