Charles Dickens
(7 de Febrero de 1812 - 9 de Junio de 1870.)
Charles Dickens, born On February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, he is
considered to be the most famous of the writers of the Victorian epoch in
England, as well as one of the undoubted universal classic ones of the
literature. His infancy, poor,
self-taught up to nine years, formed across readings, especially, " The
Cuisse of the Spot ", forced him to know I work hard, in very poor
conditions, to the age of 12 years, epoch in which it began to get out of a jam
as baler of bitumens for shoes, in the factory Warren " s Blacking, after
the imprisonment of his father, for motive of unpaid debts.
This,
partly it was solved on having received an inheritance of his paternal
grandmother. This made him possible to be present again at the school, leaving
the factory. Nevertheless, at the age of 15, it left his studies to get out of
a jam itself as messenger in a law office. It began his labor as journalist,
from 1828, as editor of the Morning Chronicle, then The Mirror of Parlament and
later for George Hogarth's newspaper under the title Sketches by Boz. In 1836
it contracted link with Katherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth with
which it had 10 children.
. From 1850, it suffered problems of health
and the death of one of his daughters, of his father and of his sister, besides
his divorce. In 1865, a
terrible railway accident happened to him, and in 1870 he suffered a cerebral
spillage that caused the death, on June 8 of this year in his Gadshill Place's
house.
The manuscript:
"
Posthumous Papers of the Club Pickwick " (1836-1837)
"Nicholas
Nickleby" (1838-1840)
"
The store of antiquities " (1840-1841)
"
Song of navidad " (1843)
"David
Copperfield" (1849-1850)
"
Histories of Ghosts ",
"Oliver
Twist" (1837-1839)
"
Dombey and son " (1846-1848)
"
The desert house " (1852-1853)
"
difficult Times " (1854)
"
The small Dorrit " (1855)
"
History of two cities " (1859)
"
Big Hopes " (1860-1861)
"
Our common friend " (1865)
"
The linesman " (1866)
"
Notes of America "
Oliver Twist.
The book reports the history of a poor,
tired and pregnant woman who is in London, which there before giving birth, is
gathered and taken to a hospice where the child is born of this one. The mother
was in so bad conditions that he dies in the childbirth, to the child newborn
child a man called Mr. Bumble (owner of the hospice), on not having had the
small name decides to put him Oliver Twist, to whom then it supports parish,
feeding him and a site to sleep. Until one day Mr. Bumble Mr decides to lead
him to working to an undertaker's establishment with a man. Sowerberry, which
is a gravedigger, but it does not make to Oliver grace great, and returns to
the hospice because of an unfortunate event.
Then it goes to London where Jew meets a
band of thieves, led by an old man, with beard called Fagín, which accepts
Oliver as member more in the band knowing there Betsy, John Dawkins "
Cunning Rogue ", etc... Fagín one day gives the orders to steal Oliver,
and if the boy does not do it the old man would give him a good beating,
because this way it is since it was treating the children if they were not
obeying him a beating was beating them to the boys, because Fagín was feeding
them etc.
Oliver was preparing to steal with other
companions an old man Mr. Brownlow and it took them, lucky the man did not take
them to the police, and rescued Oliver of the band of the Jewish old man Fagín,
after this Oliver falls patient and Ms. Bedwin takes care of him, Oliver at the
time in this moment is happy because they worry for him. Later Bill Sikes
captures Oliver, then they hurt this one.
Then
Fagín is condemned to the gallows for committing all the crimes already named
before, and later Oliver realizes that the old man Fagín is the most close
relative of this one and then the boy remains with the inheritance of the one
that Mr had ill-treated and stuck constant. Brownlow adopts Oliver
