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Charles Dickens is one of the best known and best loved of all English
novelists. He was born in Portsmouth in 1812. The little boy was very talented.
He learned to read at an early age and read many books in his childhood. When
he was about six he saw a play by Shakespeare in the theatre. He was so
inspired by this play that he wrote a play himself and performed it together
with his friends. When Charles was nine years old, the family came to London.
Charles father couldn’t get any work there and little Charles at ten, had to go
to work. At fifteen he left school and became a newspaper reporter. He had
worked as a reporter for several years before his first novels were written and
published. At the same time he was writing for a variety of magazines. In 1836,
Charles Dickens married, published his first book, and began writing his
humorous novel The Pickwick Papers, which made him famous. In 1837, it was
published and was a huge success.
Then his novels Oliver Twist, Nicholas
Nickleby, David Copperfield, Hard times and many others were published one
after another. In these novels he described what he had learned in his hard
childhood. Charles Dickens gave the realistic picture of the life of English
people. His novels were set in Victorian England. Charles Dickens was a great
master of powerful and honest stories about poor people. He had vivid
imagination and developed fabulous plots. To many people the characters of his
novels seemed more real than the real characters of history.
The great writer died in 1870 at the age of
fifty-eight. He was honored by his contemporaries as a remarkable novelist. His
books were translated into many languages, and they are still popular today.
His birthplace is visited by many tourists. People all over the world value his
novels for their realism, humor, their love and sympathy for ordinary people
Задание
1.Продолжите предложение или выберите правильный вариант.
1.Charles Dickens
is one of the best known _________________
2. He was born in
_______________________________
3. He was inspired
by ______________________
4. At 15 he became
_________________________
5. He published
his first novel a) My mysterious affair at styles
b) The Turkish Gambit
c)The Pickwick papers
6. His novels were
set in a) modern times
b) Victorian England
c) 10 century
7. The great
writer died in __________________________
8. Charles
Dickens’s works were __________, _____________, ______________.
9. Charles
Dickens’s childhood was ________________________
10. Many novels
were set in around a) Victorian England
b)
America
c) Devon
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