existing social
problems, thus
affecting some reform。
❖ Marx and his reputation as the UK and other Thackeray, "a group of distinguished novelist
❖his art with fun humor, nuanced psychologica l analysis, and descriptive realism, romantic atmosphere
Dickens’ father was an office worker in the navy
he often ended up in financial troubles though.
In 1814 Dickens moved to London, where he received some education
Charles Dickens
Charles
Dickens
（1812-1870）
• he was born in a
poor clerk’s family. he is a great novelist, had little schooling
❖ Dickens is a 19th century British literature, the main representative of realism
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wishful thinking, as in
his early works, or to
express a helpless
indignant protest. At
the same time, he
hopes to call peopletes
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Time
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
The influence
Dickens expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him.
❖ Almost all his novels have happy endings.
❖ Dickens is a great humorist
❖ Dickens is a petty bourgeois intellectual
❖ The best he can do
seems to try an optimism
Dickens’s novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age
❖ His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.
At the age of 12, his father was put in prison and young Dickens was sent to work in a factory
From 1827 to 1828
❖ Dickens worked as a clerk in a law firm, and later as a newspaper reporter. At the age of 18 he read the works of William Shakespeare and other English writers with great interest
❖ A Christmas Carol is one of Dickens’ most loved works.
❖ Dickens was honored by the Queen of England three months before his death on June 9, 1870
❖ He lies buried in the Poet’s Corner in London.
❖ The words of his grave read as follows ”by his death one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.”
The famous literature
❖ He is humorous and witty. Characterportrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works. Among a vast range of various characters, marked out by some peculiarity in physical traits, speech or