1. Charles Dickens ( )

2. Charles Dickens Biography
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast. His father was a clerk in the British Navy pay office, a respectable position, but with little social status. His paternal grandparents, a steward (property manager) and a housekeeper, possessed less status, having been servants, and Dickens later obscured their background. Dickens’s mother came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dickens’s birth, his mother’s father was caught embezzling and fled to Europe, never to return. The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as “the young gentleman.” His father was then imprisoned for debt.

3. After his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as chore boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.
The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” (later retitled “Mr. Minns and His Cousin”) brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine in From then on his sketches, in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a unpretentious reputation. Dickens became a regular visitor at the home of George Hogarth, editor of The Evening Chronicle, and in 1835 became engaged to Hogarth’s daughter Catherine. Publication of the collected Sketches by Boz in 1836 gave Dickens sufficient income to marry Catherine Hogarth that year. The marriage attest unhappy.

4. Charles Dickens Novels
The Pickwick Papers 1837
Oliver Twist 1838
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1839
The Old Curiosity Shop 1841
Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty 1841
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 1844
Dombey and Son 1848
David Copperfield 1850
Bleak House 1853
Hard Times 1854
Little Dorrit 1857
A Tale of Two Cities 1859
Great Expectations 1861
Our Mutual Friend 1865
The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished 1870

5. Charles Dickens Short Stories
A Message From the Sea
Doctor Marigold
George Silverman's Explanation
Going Into Society
Holiday Romance
Hunted Down
Mrs Lirriper's Legacy
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings
Mugby Junction
Somebody's Luggage
Some Short Christmas Stories
Sunday Under Three Heads
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
The Holly Tree Three Branches
The Lamplighter
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Tom Tiddler's Ground

6. Other books and works by Charles Dickens
A Child's History of England
A Christmas Carol
A House to Let
American Notes for General Circulation
Master Humphrey's Clock
Miscellaneous Papers
Mudfog and Other Sketches
No Thoroughfare
Pictures from Italy
Reprinted Pieces
Sketches by Boz
Sketches of Young Couples
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
Speeches: Literary And Social by Charles Dickens
The Battle of Life
The Chimes
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The Uncommercial Traveller
Three Ghost Stories: The Haunted House
Three Ghost Stories: The Signal Man
Three Ghost Stories: The Trial For Murder
To be Read at Dusk

7. MY FAVORITE BOOKS
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol

8. SUMMARY
Oliver Twist: Oliver Twist is about a young boy whose mother dies after giving birth to him. He was born in a workhouse where he spends an orphanage life. He later moves to London and get accompanied by other boys.
David Copperfield: A young man, David Copperfield tells the story of his youth. He lives happily as a child and gets responsible as he grows up.
Great Expectations: Pip, a young orphan lives with his sister and her husband. He later moves to London and befriends a young gentleman.
A Tale of Two Cities: Story about England and France that undergoes a period of disruption and chaos. A young woman who has been raised as an orphan learns something strange about her father. She later travels with a longtime Tell son's employee.
A Christmas Carol: A person name Scrooge is heartless, showing no feeling for the Christmas. Marley, he sees visions of his past, present and future that inspire him to become a passionately kind and amiable person who sends a turkey to his clerk

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