When I first told my grandma about it, she remembered reading it as a kind and said it was hilarious. I’ve actually read the complete, unabridged version of the book, and it’s looong. He was buried with pomp at Westminster’s Abbey, an honor which he fully deserved. Dickens’ death was sudden and dramatic due to a stroke. Dickens soon became the conscience of the country. The Pickwick Papers made Dickens instantaneously famous due to its character Sam Weller. His first book Sketches by Boz appeared in 1936 followed by The Pickwick Papers. Such experiences became the subject of his novels and have been immortalized in his fiction.Ĭharles became a reporter in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons due to his great speed and accuracy in shorthand. This was the first raw impact of life on a sensitive boy who had lived in a world of dreams. He had to work in the dirty, rat-infested old house, sticking labels on blacking bottles. Charles had to work in Warren’s Blacking factory owned by a relative. As a boy he was able to visit the theatre, to buy books and began to have dreams of acquiring education.īut things changed as his father got hopelessly into depth and was arrested in February 1824. On promotion, his father moved to Chatham, when Dickens was three years old. Charles Dickens was born on 7th February, 1812 at Portsea, near Portsmouth, where his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay office.
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