Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in 1821 in Moscow to a violent father. He studied medicine but also wrote novels. His first novel, Poor Folk, was a great success when self-published in 1846. However, he joined a political group and was arrested in 1849, spending years as a prisoner in Siberia. Despite this, he became one of the greatest writers in the world. Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in England to a family with financial problems. He had to leave school young and work to support his family. He became a reporter and began writing novels like Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, which were popular both during his life and today. However, he

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NOVELISTS

2. FYODOR
DOSTOYEVSKY

4. • Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a
very complicated person.
Dostoyevsky was born in 1821
in Moscow. His childhood was
very unhappy his father, a
doctor, was bad- tempered
and violent.

5. • Fyodor’s father wanted his son
to work in medicine, so Fyodor
went to college in Saint
Petersburg. He wrote a novel
and sent it to some publishers.

6. • But the publishers wanted him
to make some big changes. He
refused. So he borrowed
Money and published the
novel himself in 1846.

7. • The novel was called Poor
Folk. It was a great success,
and suddenly Dostoyevsky was
famous. He wanted new
friends, so he joined a secret
political group. He almost died
for these beliefs.

8. • On April 23, 1849, the police
arrested Dostoyevsky and
other members of the political
group. He worked as a
Prisoner in Siberia. And he
died at 59. He is one of the
greatest writers in the world.

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Novels

11. CHARLES DICKENS

13. • Dickens was born in 1812 in
Portsmouth, England. He was the
second of eight children. His
father always had problems with
Money when Charles was 12
years old, his father went to
prison because he was in debt.

14. • Charles had to leave school to
help his family. Many of his
stories and boks were about
poor people and their
problems. Later Charles went
book to school for two more
years.

15. • He left school when he was 15
years old to become a
newspaper reporter. In 1836,
he began to write The
Pickwick Papers. Dickens
married Catherine Hogarth in
1836.

16. • They didn’t get along very
well. After 16 years of
marriage they separated.
They had 10 children. Dickens
liked to make Money. Because
his difficult childhood, he was
afraid to be poor.

17. • The government even passed
laws to stop some of the
horrible things he wrote
about in his books.

18. • Books like David Copperfield,
Great Expectations, Oliver
Twist and A Christmas Carol
were popular when Dickens
wrote them, and they are still
popular today.

20. WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE

21. • At the age of one, William
Shakespeare was lucky to be
alive. After he was born, a deadly
disease came to England. It was
called the plague. It killed
thousands of people. But William
Shakespeare lived.

22. • Shakespeare grew up in
Stratford- upon- Avon,
England. He went to school 9
hours a day, six days a week
In 1582, at age 18, he married
Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s
daughter.

23. • She was 8 years older than he
was. Their first child was a
daughter. Later they had
twins. In 1585 Shakespeare
left Straftford- upon- Avon his
wife and children stayed
behind.

24. • No one knows why he lef tor
what he did between 1585
and 1592. In 1592
Shakespeare lived in London.
He visited his wife and family
once a year.

25. • Shakespeare became an
actor, and he also wrote
plays. He usually acted in his
own plays. Some of his most
famous plays were Romeo
and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth.
He wrote 37 plays in all.

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