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1. CHARLES DICKENS
1.Author biography
2.Important works
3.Summary of the work
4.Historic context
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2. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
● Charles John Huffen
Dickens was born in
Hampshire,
England, on 7th
February 1812. He
died on 4 th june
1870 ( Aged 58).

3. AUTHOR BOGRAPHY
● Dickens was an
English writer and
social critic. He
created some of the
world's best-known
fictional characters
and is regarded as
the greatest novelist
of the victorian era.

4. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
● Dickens left the
school to work in a
factory when his
father was in prison.
But he wrote fifteen
novels, hundreds of
shorts stories and
non-fiction articles
and lectured and
performed
extensively.

5. IMPORTANT WORKS
● A
Christmas
carol

6. IMPORTANT WORKS
● Oliver Twist

7. IMPORTANT WORKS
● A Tale of
Two Cities

8. SUMMARY OF THE WORK
A Christmas carol tells
the story of a bitter old
miser named Ebenezer
Scrooge and his
transformation into a
gentler, kindler man after
visitations by the ghost
of his former business
partner Jacob Marley
and the ghosts of
Christmas past, present
and yet to come.

9. SUMMARY OR THE WORK
Charles Dickens
shows an
unromantic image of
criminals and their
lives and he
exposes the cruel
treatment of the
orphans in London
in the mid-nineteeth
century.

10. SUMMARY OF THE WORK
A Tale of Two Cities
takes place in London
and Paris before and
during the French
Revolution .It shows
the hard concitions of
the French peasents
and the novel
compares the situation
with life in London.

11. HISTORIC CONTEXT
● The victorian era of
British history was the
period of Queen
Victoria's reign. It was
a long period of
peace, prosperity,
refined sensibilities
and national self-
confidence for Britain.