Charles Dickens
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The English writer and publisher was one of the most vital representatives of realistic literature of the 19th Century. His first novels emerged as a continuation of tales in newspapers. With his humorous to socially critical works by Charles Dickens then became the founder of the social novel. Based on figures full of character Dickens drew tales with existential perspective in which the excellent is struggling with evil. He highlighted the social problems of his time. International recognition as a writer, he won the major works of “Oliver Twist” (1837), “A Christmas Carol in Prose” (1843) and “David Copperfield” (1849), in which numerous autobiographical elements are contained …
Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport in Portsmouth born.
He grew up with his parents in poor circumstances. In adolescence, the family went to Chatham. Here Charles Dickens visited the school. When he had reached the age of ten, the family went to London. With his father came here in 1824 to debtor’s prison, he had to drop out of school to work as a laborer the livelihood of the family. His spare time he used to teach himself with the help of school books to read and write.
He received in 1826 a much better paying job as a lawyer’s clerk. The experience at that time led to the submission of the autobiographical novel “The life history, adventures, experiences and observations of David Copperfield the Younger,” which should only suggest itself, but, 1849-50. With working as a clerk in a lawyer, he was court stenographer in 1829 and 1831 parliamentary rapporteur. From 1832 he wrote for the “Mirror of Parliament” as well as for the liberal newspaper “The Morning Chronicle.”
In 1833 he published under the pen name “Boz” in the “Monthly Magazine”, a first series of sketches (sketches) of London’s everyday life. The book sketches made during this period he published under the pen name “Boz” as “Pickwick Papers,” which brought him considerable attention as a writer first. But, he did in the late 1830s as a self-publisher. 1838, the author edited the autobiography of the clown Joseph Grimaldi. That same year marked his novel “Oliver Twist” (1938) his breakthrough as a writer.
In 1838 came “Nicholas Nickleby”. From 1841 to 1842 he visited America, and during his second visit in 1849 to 1850 made writings on Dickens ‘David Copperfield’. In particular, this work contains many autobiographical elements, and one of his most well loved legacies. As a publisher, he published from 1850 to 1859, the weekly magazines “Household Words” and “All the Year Round” (1859-1870). Next arose travel books like “American Notes” (1842) or “Pictures from Italy” (1846).
In 1843 he released the Christmas report “A Christmas Carol in Prose” (A Christmas Carol in Prose). In it, he told the report of the rich exploiter Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve is the benefactor. Dickens became one of the most vital representatives of realistic literature of the 19th Century. Based on figures full of character, he drew tales with existential perspective in which the excellent is struggling with evil. He highlighted the social problems of his time.
Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58 years from a stroke.
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