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备课资源·参考备课资源·参考模块质量评估模块质量评估备课资源·参考备课资源·参考模块质量评估模块质量评估 Charles Dickens Charles Dickens ’ father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office and because of this, the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, and so on. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn ’ t earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start working in a factory, labelling bottles for six shillings a week. After leaving school, Charles started to work in a solicitor ’ s office. 备课资源·参考备课资源·参考模块质量评估模块质量评估 He learned shorthand and started as a reporter working for the Morning Chronicle in courts of law and the House of Commons. In 1836 his first ess was published, The Pickwick Papers . This was followed by more novels: Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838 ~ 39) and Barnaby Rudge (1841). He travelled to America later that year and aroused the hostility of the American press by supporting the abolition movement. In 1858 he divorced from his wife Catherine, who had borne him ten children. During the 1840s his social criticism becam 备课资源·参考备课资源·参考模块质量评估模块质量评估 more radical and his comedy more savage: Novels like David Copperfield (1849 ~ 50), A Tale of Two Cities (1959), Great Expectations (1860 ~ 61) only increased his fame and respect. His last novel,