David Copperfield, Dickens, Charles
Short BiographieThe author of this book is Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens was born near Portsmouth, England in 1812. He is a great novellist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are charactericized by attacks on social evils, unjustice, and hypocrisy. He had also experienced in his youth oppression, when he was forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory. It caused a trauma for the rest of his life.
In 1828, he started to work as a reporter. He wrote for True Son, Mirror of Parliament and the Morning Chronicle. These years as a journalist left Dickens with lasting affection for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversatio