Charles Dickens

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•When and where he was born• When and where he died •Where he was buried•His most important works•¨Oliver Twist¨•Victorian period

When and where he was bornHe was born in England 7th February in 1812.

He was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period.

He was born in Portsmouth, but he lived his childhood in London and Kent.

When and where he was died

He was died in 1870 , On 9th June in England , exactly in Gad Hills Place .Gad Hllis Place was Charles Dikens' country home.

Where he was buried

He was buried in Westminster five days after he died

His most important works•Papeles póstumos del Club Pickwick (1836–1837)•Oliver Twist (1837–1839)•Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839)•La tienda de antigüedades (1840–1841)•Barnaby Rudge (1841)•A Christmas Carol (1843) (conocida también como Canción de Navidad o Un cuento de Navidad)•Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–1844)•Dombey e hijo (1846–1848)•David Copperfield (1849–1850)•Casa desolada (1852–1853)•Tiempos difíciles (1854)•La pequeña Derrit (1855–1857)•Historia de dos ciudades (1859)•Grandes esperanzas (1860–1861)•Nuestro común amigo (1864–1865)•El guardavía (1866)

Oliver TwistDickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humour.The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of hardships as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s

Victorian period

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

A characteristic of the Victorian literature was a teaching and moralistic spirit.(the novels of Dickens).