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1、Charles Dickens Content Life of Charles Dickens Major Works A Christmas Carol References Life of Charles DickensBorn at Landport, in Portsmouthon 7 Feburary, 1812 Life of Charles DickensMotherElizabeth DickensFatherJohn Dickens Life of Charles DickensJohn DickensA clerk in the Navy Pay-office Enable
2、d Charles to study at William Giles School(age 9-11)Marshalsea Debtors PrisonWarrens Blacking Warehouse (age 12) Life of Charles DickensWarrens Blacking WarehouseWork 10 hours a dayTerrible work conditionsThe blacking-warehouse “was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, an
3、d literally overrun with rats”. Life of Charles DickensJohn Dickens450 Life of Charles DickensWellington HouseAcademy(age13-15) Junior clerk at a law office (from 1827-1828) Newspaper reporter (before 20) Life of Charles DickensIn 1836 The Pickwick Papers Catherine Thomson Hogarth185810 children Lif
4、e of Charles DickensAround 1865, Dickens health began to decline.On 8 June,1870, he suffered a stroke at his home, after a full days work on his unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin DroodOn 9 June,1870, he died, and was laid to rest in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey Life of Charles Dickens H
5、is epitaph(墓志銘) reads: To the Memory of Charles Dickens (Englands most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathizer with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of Englands greatest writers is lost
6、 to the world. Life of Charles DickensShowed warmth, humor and understanding to humanityTraveled as a reader and busied with charitiesWrote 19 and a half novelsEmphasized with the poor and mocked the selfish MAJOR WORKS1. The Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外傳2. Oliver Twist 霧都孤兒3. American Notes 美國札記4. Dombey
7、and Son 董貝父子5. David Copperfield 大衛(wèi)科波菲爾6. Hard Times 艱難時世7. A Tale of Two Cities 雙城記8. Great Expectations 遠(yuǎn)大前程 A Tale of Two Cities雙城記 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incred
8、ulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way-in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ” -經(jīng)典開篇