C. Dickens

C. Dickens

• Born in Portsmouth
• 1812-1870
• unhappy childhood
• shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates
• full-time career as a novelist
• 1842 visits USA
• buried in Westminster Abbey

THE NOVELS HE WROTE -

• The Pickwick papers

• A Christmas Carol

• Oliver Twist

• David Copperfield

• Little Dorrit

• Bleak House

• Hard Times and Great Expectations

Multiple Choice

In Dickens' novels the main characters belong to the

• Middle-class

• Aristocracy

• Lower class

• Upper-middle-class

Multiple Select

Choose the right options

• children are better than grown-ups

• grown-ups are the best children's mentors

• children from low-class show no moral sense

• children are the ones who theach adults how to behave

• Adults aren't often trustful

Hard Times

FACTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfDmr7hmmOI

A VIDEO SUMMARY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPRT_EMMK7g