CHARLES
DICKENS
CHARLES
DICKENS
Charles Dickens was born on February
7, 1812, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk ( impiegato) in the
Naval Pay Office. He had a poor head for finances, and in 1824 found himself
imprisoned for debt. His wife and children, with the exception of Charles, who
was put to work in a factory, joined him in the Prison. When the family
finances were put to rights and his father was released, the 12 years old Dickens,
already scarred psychologically by the experience, was further wounded by his
mother's insistence that he continue to work at the factory. His father,
however, rescued him from that fate, and between 1824 and 1827 Dickens was a
day pupil at a school in London. At fifteen, he found employment as an office
boy while he studied shorthand
(stenografia) at night. In 1829 he became a free-lance reporter ( diventò
reporter) at Doctor's Commons Courts, and in
1830 he met and fell in love with Maria Beadnell, the daughter of a banker. By
1832 he had become a very successful shorthand reporter of Parliamentary
debates in the House of Commons, and began work as a reporter for a newspaper. He suffered a stroke
(paralisi)
on June 8 at Gad's Hill, and died the next day. He was buried at Westminster
Abbey on June 14.
The
majority of Dickens’ novels deal (trattano) with the degraded urban setting ( ambiente) of
English industrial town of the first half of the 19th century.
Most of Dickens’ characters ( personaggi)
belong ( appartengono)
to the lower-middle class; he gave voice to their economic worries (preoccupazioni),
their fear (paura) of social instability, their anguish (angoscia)
about poverty.
The most famous novels are: The
Adventures of Oliver Twist- Hard Times- David Copperfield –A Christmas Carol
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