Pamela L. Abjelina

 The Works Of One Of The Famous English Writers- Charles Dickens There are many famous English writers and one of them is Charles Dickens and he began as a journalist. Charles Dickens is an author of English classics such as the Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and the Bleak House as well. His full name is Charles John Dickens. He became one of the famous novelists in the Victorian era. He got busy as one of the best writers and became the main cast in plays and have traveled on tours for his books that he wrote. He spent his time editing his other books, ‘Household Words All The Year Round.’ His fans got hooked with his writing style, they can’t wait to know on what’s going to happen and his books became bestsellers. His famous English novels was used in plays, TVs and films. In 1824, Dickens’ father have a financial problem and was imprisoned in the Marshallsea debtors prison. Because of this, he stopped school and to support his family he worked as a shoeshine boy in a warehouse. And the good thing is that his father was released from prison after a few months. With the problem that their family had with his father, Dickens became interested in improving the situation in the prison and he was able to made other people became involved with his on this subject. Dickens also has an organization for women and here, he helped them to have chance to fulfill their dreams to have a big career and go to another country like in England, Australia, or America. The Life Of Charles Dickens Let us get to know who is Charles Dickens. He grew up in Chatham, Kent in London. His full name is Charles John Huffan Dickens and he was born on February 12, 1812. At the age of 15, he had a work instead of going to school at the attorney’s office and studied shorthand at night. And after that, he became a shorthand reporter in the courts, worked as a parliamentary and as a newspaper reporter. Dickens contributed short stories and essays to periodicals in the year 1833. The first story that he published was, ‘A Dinner At Popular Walk,’ which appeared in the Monthly Magazine in December 1834. Charles Dickens’ code name is ‘Boz’ when he was a newspaper paper in 1834. His first book is ‘Sketches,’ and it is a collection of stories by Boz which was published in 1836. And with that same year, he got married with Catherine Hogarth and daughter of the editor of the Evening Chronicle. The novelist continued writing until he grew old. He is the editor of the editor of ‘The Daily News House And Words,’ and ‘All The Year Round.’ As a writer, he had connections to magazines and newspapers and he was able to write fiction. After he and his wife separated, he had an affair with a young actress named Ellen Ternan. Here is the link for you of a video about the life of Charles Dickens and I hope you like it. https://youtu.be/IFF-AOtS1H4 Charles Dickens became a great novelist and his books were used in plays, television and films. Below is a list of famous novels of Charles Dickens. Bleak House (579 pages) Great Expectations (298 pages) The Old Curiosity Shop (361 pages) The Rickwick Papers (520 pages) Nicholas Nickle (546 pages) I got my love for English literature from my Aunt who has an MA of American literature in Stanford University. And I’ve read two books from her, I can’t exactly remember but this was when I was in high school I guess, the 1st one was Great Expectations and the 2nd one was Bleak House by Charles Dickens. An Overview Of The Book Great Expectations The story of Great Expectations was based in England and a 7 yr-old boy named Philip an orphan, was sent by his stepfather named Joe to work in the house of Miss Harshan, an affluent woman. Philip lived with his older sister Mrs. Joe and his stepfather who is a blacksmith. While visiting his parents tomb, Philip met a convict, Abel Magwitch and he was famished that’s why Philip gave him food. One day, Philip went to Miss Harshan and here he met Estella, her adopted daughter. A guy visited Miss Harshan’s place and asked to talk to Philip and tried to recruit him to become a gentleman or a soldier. Miss Harshan and Estella somehow belittled him that’s why he thought of quitting his job as the one who assists his somehow kind stepfather Joe as a blacksmith and will enlist himself as one of the soldiers. But you can see the twist of the story, Estella turned out to be the daughter of Molly. On the other hand, Abel Magwitch went to see Philip and told him that he will be his benefactor. And Magwitch was the father of Estella. Miss Harshan is a wealthy woman who owns a brewery. She had a man that she is suppose to marry, but her family warned her not to trust this man, Miss Harshan’s wedding was jilted with this man that’s why you can see Miss Harshan’s emotion of being in despair in her house, there are cobwebs in her place and the furnitures are in the same place just like before. He sort of liked Estella but the interesting part of the story is Miss Harshan used Estella as an instrument to get revenge to guys the same like the person who gave her heart break. She trained Estella to become cold hearted. He returned to his place and Philip already became a gentleman, and he and Estella fell in love with each other. An Overview Of the Book Bleak House The story is narrated by Esther Summers. A man named John Jarndyce has an amount of wealth and prepared a last will and testament. Another important character of the story is Lady Dedlock she had a sad love story because this certain guy named Tulkinghorn didn’t give the letters from her lover. He was trying to ruin Lady Dedlock and her partner who are falling in love with each other. It shouldn’t be like that because it is their right to fall in love and they shouldn’t try stop them. Lady Dedlock was certainly unhappy because of the wicked Tulkinghorn. While Judy and Harold Skynpole is a couple who got very joyful because they are soon going to be one of the possible recipients of Mr. John Jarndyce wealth. You can try to check the links from the books I shared to you here. They are audiobooks that you can listen and I hope you enjoy it. Bleak House by Charles Dickens htpps://youtube/-X32owJ91-4 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens htpps://you.tu.be/YA18xKvOK94