Monday, November 9, 2009

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
Written by :Maria Alejandra Vanegas
6B Libia Gómez Casseres English

Index
•Biography
•Books
•Family
•Nicholas Nickleby
•pictures

Biography
Charles Dickens was born at Landport, In Portsea on February 7 , 1812.His father was a clerk in the navy phy-office and was temporarily on duty in the neighborhood when Charles was born .His father´s name was John Dickens. He spent time in prison for debets in 1824 Charles Being sent to work in a blacking warehouse. Dickens worked hard, become first a clerk in a Parliamentary debates for the Morning Chonicle.It is from here that Dickens's talent portraits and caricature stemmed, and his Sketches by Boz. Which appeared in the Monthly magazine and the Evening Chonicle.It is from here thet Dickens talen .

Books
•The Pickwick Papers (836-1837)
Oliver Twist (1837-1839)
Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841)
Barnaby Rudge (1841)
Christmas Carol (1843)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)
Dombey and Son (1846-1848)
David Copperfield (1849-1850)
Bleak House (1852-1853)
Hard Times (1854)
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860-1861)
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)
The linesman (1866)

Family
•His father was a clerk in the navy phy-office and was temporarily on duty in the neighborhood when Charles was born .His father´s name was John Dickens. He spent time in prison for debets. He had 8 brothers and 10 child's anyone of her child's want to be writers. His family was very poor.

Nicholas Nickleby
•After the death of his financially replete father, Nicholas Nickleby and his family travel to London to seek assistance from his father's older brother Ralph. Taking an immediate dislike to his nephew, Ralph employs Nicholas under the sadistic Mr. Squeers and his interminable wife, owners of a boys' school in northern England. In the meantime, Ralph seeks to use Nicholas' beautiful sister Kate as a ploy to influence his investors. Discourse forces Nicholas to flee the school with the crippled Smike, an orphan with no memories of his former life before he was brought to Dotheboys' Hall. On their journey back to London they meet up with Vincent Crummles and his acting troupe, befriend Ralph's good-hearted secretary Newman Noggs, and ultimately rise over adversity.

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