CHARLES DICKENS
British novelist Charles Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in
Portsmouth, England. Over the course of his writing career, he wrote the
beloved classic novels Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby,
David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. On June 9,
1870, Dickens died of a stroke in Kent, England, leaving his final novel, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
Dickens himself had a difficult, unhappy childhood and young David's life is not at all easy. His father died before he was born, and when he is eight, his mother marries again. Her new husband, Mr Murdstone, is stern and cruel, and so is his disagreeable sister, the stony - faced Miss Murdstone. As he gtows up, David meets many unpleasant people - cruel schoolmasters, wicked friend, and the evil Uriah Heep, with his oily smile.
But there
are other people in Davis’s life too.
There is Peggotty, his kind loving nurse, and slow Mr Barkis, a man of
very few words. There is David’s aunt,
who tries hard to be stern but who has a heart of gold. There are the unlucky Micawbers, cheerful and
despairing by turns, always waiting for something to ‘turn up’. There is quiet
gentle Agnes, always a true and wise friend.
And then there is Dora, the loveliest girl you ever saw, with her golden
hair and blue eyes – sweet, pretty, still Dora…
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