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Charles DickensCharles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was a famous English critical realism novelist in the 19th century. “He created some of the worlds most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars.”With time going by, his novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.In his works, he paid special attention to the life of little guyat the bottom of societyin the UK, which deeply reflected the complex social reality at that time. LIFE AND CAREERCharles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, the second son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. Hehad a well-off family in his early years and was once educated in a private school for a period of time, but his parents often banqueted guests and used money without restraint. As a result, his father, inspiration for the character of Mr.Micawber in David Copperfield, was imprisoned for bad debt when Charles Dickens was 10 years old. “The entire family,apart from Charles, was sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warrens blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair.”He worked over 10 hours every day. After three years,luckily, his father inherited a legacy of the family, so their economic conditions were improved. He was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalized in two of his better-known novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations.At the age of 15, he graduated from Wellington College, and thenworked into a lawyer line.Laterhe turned to newspaper, becoming a reporter at the age of 20.“Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals The Mirror of Parliament and The True Sun. Then in 1