Презентация на тему Charles Dickens

and social critic. He created some of the world's

most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

would comb his hair hundreds of times a day,

constantly rearranged the furniture and was obsessed with looking in the mirror.

bed. It had to be aligned north to south

because of his obsession with magnetic fields and the belief it improved his writing.

friends home as well as his own.

nicknames.

his books. Doctors are still astonished how accurate his

descriptions of epilepsy are in his books.

of his day. In 1841 when the Old Curiosity

Shop was serialized 6000 people descended on New York docks when the final installment arrived all shouting `does little Nell live`? to the sailors.

used it to try and cure his wife and

children of any ailments.

When Hans Christian Anderson stayed with him he gave

him a BIG hint that he had outstayed his welcome by attaching a note to his mirror which said `Hans Anderson slept in this room for 5 weeks which seemed to the family, like AGES`.

which was designed like a bookcase filled with fake

books.

as `The sparkler of Albion` (Albion being an archaic

name for England). It was a pun on Shakespeare's reference to himself as the Bard of Avon.

the Marshalsea debtors prison .

the basics of reproduction as he resented his wife

for giving him 10 children and this resentment was a factor in their separation in1858.

his father being in prison and to help provide

for his family he was forced to leave school and Take his first job in a blacking (shoe polish) factory applying the labels to the bottles. Throughout his life he would never discuss this experience .

young actress named Ellen Ternan and this continued until

his death. It was kept very secret and as a result there is little written literature on it.

which meant he could indulge his love of the

stage and performing .

lived with them died in Dickens`s arms after a

short illness. She would later be immortalized as Little Nell.

was an early member of The Ghost Club.

death when the train he was traveling in with

Ellen and her mother crashed in Staplehurst. He spent time after the crash helping tend to the dying and injured and although physically unharmed he mentally never recovered.

died at his home from a massive stroke leaving

his last work The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. He was 58.