Popular British author，Charles Dickens’（1 8 f2，c——1 870）family could hardly make ends meet．
They could only afford to send one of their six children to sch001．Dickens was not that child．Hisparents chose to send a daughter，who had a talent for music，to aD academy．Then at the age of12，Dickens’life took another turn for the worse．
His father，a clerk，was placed in prison for unpaid debts．And，being the oldest male left athome，Dickens took up work at a factory．His horrible experience there became the fuel for hisfuture writin9．His father was freed three months later and inherited a small amount of money．Dickens was then sent to sch001．
From l 836 t0 1 837，he wrote a monthly series of stories．Thus The Pickwick Papers，came into bein9，which brought fame to him．
Throughout his career，Dickens covers various situations in his novels．He wrote about themiserable lives of the poor in Oliver Twist，the French Revolution in Tale of Two Cities，and socialreform. in Hard Times．He also wrote David Coppeoqeld．a book thought to be modeled on his ownlife．
“I do not write bitterly or angrily．for I know all these things have worked together to make mewhat I am，”he once said．His difficult childhood did indeed shape the person he became，as wellas his writing career．There are—sha—des of young Dickens in many of his most beloved characters，including David Copperfield and Oliver Twist．
Like the author，all these characters come from poor beginnings and are able to rise above theirsetbacks and achieve Success．“Minds，like bodies．will often fall into an ill．conditioned state fromtoo much comfort，”he once wrote．On June 9th，1 870，aged 58，Dickens died，leaving oneunfinished work．The words on his tombstone read：“He was a sympathizer to the poor，the sufferingand the oppressed，and by his death，one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world．’’
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