Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812,
to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children. John
Dickens was imprisoned for debt when Charles was young. Charles Dickens
went to work at a blacking warehouse, managed by a relative of his mother,
when he was twelve, and his brush with hard times and poverty affected him
deeply. He later recounted these experiences in the semi-autobiographical
novel David Copperfield .
Major Works
1836 —1841, first period, Period of youthful optimist: fun, high spirit,
naive optimism
At this stage Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world
would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness, justice, and
sympathetic understanding. Dickens thought that the whole social question
would be solved if only every employer reformed himself according to the
model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels. This naive optimism is
characteristic of the petty-bourgeois humanitarians of his time.
1) Sketches by Boz
?博兹特写集 ?, the first book
2) The Pickwick Papers
?匹克威克外传 ?
3. Oliver Twist
特
?奥克佛 ・ 维斯特 ?,《雾都孤儿》
4. Nichols Nickleby
尼
?尼古拉斯 ・ 克尔贝 ?
5. The Old Curiosity Shop
?老古玩店 ?
拉
6. Barnaby Rudge 巴纳比 ・ 奇
1842-1850, The second period- - Period of excitement, irritation and
frustration: exposing the corrupting influence of wealth and power,
optimism turn
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