Dear students,
Charles Dickens is the author of our 1st Classic Ghost Story. So, let ´s see a little bit about his life:
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England’s most famous and prolific authors. He wrote novels, plays and short stories. Among his best-known novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
Dickens came from a large, poor family. When his father got into debt and went to prison, 12-year-old. Charles had to leave school and work under terrible conditions to help his family. Many of his stories contain social criticism based on his own difficult experiences. As a young man, Dickens started work as an office boy for a newspaper. He very quickly became a reporter for two large London newspapers, and it was at this time that he began to write. Some of his stories were published in serial form in papers
and magazines. His ghost story The Signal-Man first appeared in 1866 in a Christmas collection of the periodical All Year Round that he founded.
Dickens married and had a large family. He died of a stroke and was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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