This document provides biographical information about Charles Dickens and analyzes his famous book "A Christmas Carol". It summarizes that Dickens was born into a poor family in England and had to work at a young age. He later became a successful writer who published many famous novels. "A Christmas Carol" tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by three ghosts. It emphasizes themes of charity, kindness, and the spirit of Christmas. The student finds this to be their favorite Dickens story because it provides an important moral lesson about changing one's outlook and helping others.

1. National Institute of Business
Department of English
Year III, Semester II
Bachelor’s Degree of Education in TEFL
A19 MORNING
ASSIGNMENT
Subject: Literature Studies
Topic: An author and his book
“CHARLES DICKENS and A Christmas
Carol”
Submitted to : Mr. Them Bunroth
Submitted by: Ms. Oum vidasophea
Ms. Aon somavotey
Ms. Neom yang
Mr. Mom meayeat
Academic year : 2011-2012

2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Dickens
 Birth Name:
Charles John Huffham Dickens
 Date of Birth:
7 February 1812, Portsmouth,
Hampshire,England,UK
 Date of Death:
9 June 1870, Gad's Hill, Rochester, Kent, England,
UK (cerebral haemorrhage)

3. Dickens’s house (1817-1822)

4. DICKENS’S CHILDHOOD AND
SCHOOLING

5. • Dickens was born in a poor family.
• He was a second child of eight children.
• His father was a clerk and his mother
was a factory worker
• In 1824, Dickens worked in the factory ( shoes polish)
with his mother while his father
was being in prison.

6.  In the age of 12 he lived alone.
 In 1824- 1827 Dickens returned school in London.
 In the age of 15 he forced to leave school
and worked as an office boy .
 In the following year he became
a freelance reporter and stenographer
(using shorthand to transcribe documents)
at the law courts of London.

7.  By 1832 he had become a reporter for two London
newspapers.
 in the following year, began to contribute a series of
impressions and sketches to other newspapers and
magazines, signing some of them "Boz."
 These scenes of London life went far to establish his
reputation and were published in 1836 as Sketches by
Boz, his first book. On the strength of this success
Charles married Catherine Hogarth. Together they had
ten children.

8. HIS EARLY WORK

9.  In 1837 a form of serial publication became a standard
method of writing and producing fiction in the Victorian
period.
 In the same year he was an editor of Bentley's Miscellany
magazine and then he started his new novel “Oliver
Twist’”
 In 1842 Dickens was as popular in America as he was in
England, went on a five-month lecture tour of the United
States, speaking out strongly against slavery and in
support of other reforms.
• Dicken was in 1839

10.  On his return he wrote American Notes, a book that
criticizes American life as being culturally backward and
materialistic.
 His next novel, Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–1844),
describes the hero finding that survival on the American
frontier is more difficult than making his way in England.
 During the years in which Chuzzlewit
appeared, Dickens also published
two Christmas stories,
A Christmas Carol and The Chimes.

11. FIRST MAJOR NOVEL

12.  After a year abroad in Italy and writing Pictures from
Italy (1846), Dickens published installments of Dombey and
Son, which continued till 1848.
 Dickens's next novel, David Copperfield (1849–1850), is the first
complete record of the typical course of a young man's life in
Victorian England. This autobiographical novel fictionalized
elements of Dickens's childhood, his pursuit of a journalism
career, and his love life. Though Copperfield is not Dickens's
greatest novel, it was his personal favorite.
 In 1850 Dickens began a new magazine, Household Words. His
editorials and articles touched upon English politics, social
institutions, and family life.

13. HIS LATER WORK

14.  In 1859 his London readings continued, and he began a new
weekly, All the Year Round.
 The first installment of A Tale of Two Cities appeared in the
opening number, and the novel continued through November.
 In 1863, he did public readings both in Paris and London.
 “Our Mutual Friend” was begun in 1864, and appeared monthly
until November 1865.
 In the same year, Dickens was in poor health, due largely to
consistent overwork.

15.  In 1865, an incident occurred which disturbed Dickens
greatly, both psychologically and physically.
After rail crash

16.  1866 brought another series of public readings in England and
Scotland, and still more public readings, in England and
Ireland, were undertaken in 1867.
 Dickens was now really unwell but carried
on, compulsively, against his doctor's advice
 Dickens's health was worsening, but he took over still another
physically and mentally exhausting task, editorial duties at All the
Year Round.
 During 1869, his readings continued, in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, until at last he collapsed, showing symptoms of mild
stroke. Further provincial readings were cancelled, but he began
upon The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

17.  Dickens's final public readings took place in London in 1870. He
suffered another stroke on June 8 at Gad's Hill, after a full day's
work on Edwin Drood, and died the next day.
 He was buried at Westminster Abbey on June 14, and the last
episode of the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood appeared in
September

18. DICKENS’S
BOOK

19.  Fiction
 A Christmas Carol
 A Message from the Sea
 A Tale of Two Cities
 All The Year Round
 American Notes
 Barnaby Rudge
 Bleak House
 David Copperfield
 Dombey and Son
 Great Expectations
 Hard Times
 Holiday Romance
 Hunted Down
 Little Dorrit
 Martin Chuzzlewit
 Master Humphrey's Clock
 Mudfog and Other Sketches
 Nicholas Nickleby
 Oliver Twist

20.  Our Mutual Friend
 Reprinted Pieces
 Sketches by Boz
 Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
 The Battle of Life
 The Chimes
 The Cricket on the Hearth
 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
 The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
 The Old Curiosity Shop
 The Pickwick Papers
 The Uncommercial Traveller

21. WHICH IS DICKENS'S BOOK DO
YOU LIKE?

22. A CHRISTMAS CAROL

23. ABOUT THE STORY
 A Christmas Carol is a novella by English
author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman
& Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour
and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical,
and emotional transformation after the supernatural
visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas
Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The novella met
with instant success and critical acclaim.
 . A Christmas Carol remains popular, has never
been out of print, and has been adapted to film,
stage, opera, and other media.

24. SHORT SUMMERY OF
“ A CHRISTMAS CAROL”

25.  A Christmas Carol Plot Summary
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old man who believes that Christmas is
just an excuse for people to miss work and for idle people to expect
handouts. He doesn't believe in all of the good cheer and charity that the
season promotes, and he makes sure everyone knows it.
That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business
associate, Jacob Marley -- a man who was as greedy and cold as
Scrooge is. Marley warns Scrooge that if he continues to live so
selfishly, he will spend eternity wearing the chains that his greed has
built.
Three ghosts visit Scrooge successively: the Ghost of Christmas Past,
the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to
Come. They show Scrooge his error in valuing money over people.
Scrooge is frightened by the bleak picture of his life and promises to
change his ways.
Scrooge awakes on Christmas morning a new man. He becomes jolly
and charitable, and truly turns into the man he promised the ghosts he
would become. He carries the spirit of Christmas with him all the year
round.

26. THIS IS MY FAVORITE STORY
After reading this story.. I can learn a lot from
it because
 It provide good moral to human kind..
 a message of hope
 its message that anyone can change their
situation, outlook, or mentality.
 the story reminds us about our action.
Whatever we did in the past will give us the
result in the future.

27.  Happiness can not buy on the market.
 It is not too late if you want to change from bad
guy to good guy.
 Illustrate us how it is important for us to help out
those who are less fortunate.

28. REFERENCE
 www.enotes.com
 http://www.bookrags.com/notes/xmas/
 www.victorianweb.org/authors/Dickons/bioov.ht
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

29. Thanks for your attention