Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in 1824. 12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot blacking factory, earning six shillings a week to help support the family. This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age".
This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner,Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave.
Here is a list of some of his works which include fiction, non-fiction and short stories:
Fiction:
A Christmas Carol
A Tale Of Two Cities
Barnaby Rudge
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Nicholas Nickleby
No Thoroughfare
Oliver Twist
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Pickwick Papers
Non-Fiction:
A Child's History of England
American Notes
Pictures From Italy
Speeches: Literary and Social
Short Story:
The Schoolboy's Story
The Haunted House
Hunted Down
Somebody's Luggage
The Seven Poor Travellers
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