Great Expectations İngilizce Roman — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was bom on February 7 1812 in Port sea England His parents were middle class but they suffered financially as a result of living beyond their means When Dickens was twelve years old his family s dire straits forced him to quit school and work in a blacking factoiy where shoe polish was manufactured Within weeks his father was put in debtor s prison where Dickens s mother and siblings eventually joined him At this point Dickens lived on his own and continued to work at the factory for several months The horrific conditions in the factory haunted him for the rest of his life as did the experience of temporary orphanhood Apparently Dickens never forgot the day when a more senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens in how to do his work more efficiently For Dickens that instruction may have represented the first step toward his full integration into the misery and tedium of working class life The more senior boy s name was Bob Fagin Dickens s residual resentment of him reached a fevered pitch in the characterization of the villain Fagin in Oliver Twist After inheriting some money Dickens s father got out of prison and Charles returned to school As a young adult he worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist His experience as a journalist kept him in close contact with the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution and he grew disillusioned with the attempts of lawmakers to alleviate those conditions A collection of semi fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel The Pickwick Papers which was serialized beginning in 1836 and published in book form the following year The Pickwick Papers published when Dickens was only twenty five was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity after its publication In 1836 Dickens married Catherine Hogarth but after twenty years of marriage and ten children he fell in love with Ellen Tertian an actress many years his junior Soon after Dickens and his wife separated ending a long series of marital difficulties Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life and his novels among them Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities A Christmas Carol David Copperfield Dickens most autobiographical novel and Bleak House continued to earn critical and popular acclaim He died of a stroke in 1870 at the age of 58 leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished Yayınevi DORLİON YAYINLARI Yazar CHARLES DICKENS Baskı 1 BASKI Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 468 SAYFA Yıl 2018