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高三英语 Unit 7 A Christmas Carol 介绍作者Charles Dickens A Brief Life Story of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period. Dickenss works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy （虚荣）. Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. John，Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was finally imprisoned for debt at the Marshalsea debtor’s prison in Southwark in 1824. 12-year –old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory earning six shillings a week to help support the family. Charles considered this period as the most terrible time in his life This childhood poverty and adversity contributed greatly to Dickens’ later views on social reform in a country and his compassion for the lower class, especially the children. Dickenss career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays appeared in periodicals. His Sketches By Boz and The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836.In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth.  The Pickwick Papers were stories about a group of rather odd individuals and their travels to Ipswich, Rochester, Bath and elsewhere. Dickenss novels first appeared in monthly installments, including Oliver Twist (1837-39), which depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist. Among his later works are David Copperfield (1849-50), where Dickens used his own personal experiences of work in a factory, Bleak House (1852-53), A Tale Of Two Cities (1859), set in the years of the French Revolution and Great Expectations (1860-61) He died on June 9, 1870. The inscription on his tombstone in P