II CENTENARIO DEL NACIMIENTO DE CHARLES DICKENS

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