Many think that in this book Dickens was expressing not only his personal faith but was describing something of the journey that took him from poverty to riches. In this familiar story about Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge (remember, "Bah, humbug!”), Marley, and ghosts from the past, present, and future, Dickens brings together the elements of greed, depression, poverty, and hope. In his mid 20s he became famous for his Pickwick Papers but it was his A Christmas Carol that touches our hearts at the Christmas season. His walks sometimes extended 20 or 30 miles." The World Book Encyclopedia says of Dickens, "He came to know the streets and alleys of London better, perhaps, than any other person of his time. But his characters were based on real-life people he met and knew in the harsh world of the 1820s and 30s.
Though he attended school off and on until he was fourteen, it was the world of poverty and hunger, the world that exploited children, alcoholism, and drudgery which gave him his real education.ĭickens acquired a love to read, and the lad whose name was destined to become a household word in the English-speaking world devoured and read everything he could borrow. It was a bad experience for the youthful Dickens, one that darkly impressed him, and one he never could speak freely about. But even when he was free, he could never adequately provide for his family.Īt the age of 12, Charles Dickens was forced to work in a London factory, pasting labels on bottles of shoeblack. His father, John, was a poor clerk who was thrown into debtor's prison when he couldn't repay a loan. He was born in Portsmouth, on the southern coast of England, in 1812, and when he was about two years of age, his family moved to London, then a large, dark and dirty city.
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Who would challenge the contention that Charles Dickens was one of the most influential novelists of the 19th century, perhaps of all times? He wrote five Christmas stories, but none is better known or loved than his little book A Christmas Carol, starring none other than old Ebenezer Scrooge and little Tiny Tim-whom we can all identify with, especially if you can ever remember not getting anything for Christmas.ĭickens was a little guy with a Type A personality, full of energy and drive. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
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