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,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Charles Dickens,My favorite English writer,B,rief,I,ntroduction,Charles John Huffam Dickens(7 February 1812 9 June 1870)was an English novelist,generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period.Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime,and he remains popular,having been responsible for some of English literatures most iconic novels and characters.,Many of his writings were originally published serially,in monthly instalments or parts,a format of publication which Dickens himself helped popularise at that time.Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation,Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialised.The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm,punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment.The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.,Dickens work has been highly praised for its realism,comedy,mastery of prose,unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers such as Leo Tolstoy,George Gissing and G.K.Chesterton;though others,such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf,have criticised it for sentimentality and implausibility.,Portsmouth,Hampshire,9,Poor,quarter,Family in debt,prison for debt,12,blacking,Factory,happiest,time,restarted schooling,a lawyers office,15,shorthand,the,British,Museum,Library,parliamentary,reporter,writing career,Charles Dickens is a productive writer.,His,novel,博兹札记,（,Sketches by,Boz,）,1836,年,匹克威克外传,（,The Pickwick Papers,）,1836,年,雾都孤儿,（,Oliver Twist,）,1837,年,1839,年,尼古拉斯,尼克贝,（,Nicholas,Nickleby,）,1838,年,1839,年,老古玩店,（,The Old Curiosity Shop,）,1840,年,1841,年,巴纳比,拉奇,（,Barnaby,Rudge,）,1841,年,美国纪行,（,American Notes,）,1842,年,小气财神,（,A Christmas Carol,）,1843,年,马丁,翟述伟,（,Martin,Chuzzlewit,）,1843,年,1844,年,Productive Writer,大卫科波菲尔,（,David Copperfield,）,1849,年,1850,年,写给孩子看的英国历史,（,A Childs History of England,）,1851,年,1853,年,荒凉山庄,（,Bleak House,）,1852,年,1853,年,艰难时世,（,Hard Times,）,1854,年,小杜丽,（,Little,Dorrit,）,1855,年,1857,年,双城记,（,A Tale of Two Cities,）,1859,年,远大前程,（,Great Expectations,）,1860,年,1861,年,我们共同的朋友,（,Our Mutual Friend,）,1864,年,1865,年,艾德温,德鲁德之谜,（,The Mystery of Edwin,Drood,）,未完成，,1870,年,Some I,ntroduction,of His Work,Oliver Twist;or,The Parish Boys Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens,published by Richard Bentley in 1838.The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist,who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker.He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger,leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets.Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin,naively unaware of their unlawful activities.,A Tale of Two Cities(1859)is a novel by Charles Dickens,set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.With well over 200 million copies sold,it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.,Thank you!,