Short Biographie

The author of this book is Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens was born near Portsmouth, England in 1812. He is a great novellist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are charactericized by attacks on social evils, unjustice, and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression, when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory. It caused a trauma for the rest of his life.
In 1828, he started to work as a reporter. He wrote for True Son, Mirror of Parliament and the Morning Chronicle. These years as a journalist left Dickens with lasting affection for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through their own words. Dickens's career as a writer of fiction started in 1833. We notice two periods in his novel writing:

I. He wrote detached scenes linked by the main figure, a young unhappy boy that gave, with his own eyes, the world of the adults with their injustice.
II. He wrote objective social criticism.

He married Catherine Hogart in 1836. However, some people suspected that he was more fond of her sister, Mary.
The Pickwick Papers were stories about a group of rather odd individuals and their travels. Other famous works: Oliver...








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