CHARLES DICKENS

     Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England (7th February, 1812) and died in Gads Hill Place (9th June, 1870). He was a famous English novelist. He was one of the best-known writers of universal literature, and the most important one in the Victorian period.

     He was well-known during his lifetime and nowadays he remains popular.  Many of his writings were originally published serially, in monthly instalments (Dickens himself helped popularise).  He combined mastery when narrating, humour, tragic feeling as well as irony. He criticized  the society where he lived and brought his readers with an intense description of people and places.

     He condemned publically the brutal exploitation of children in England, and thanks to his involvement with society, many consciences awoke with the reality of the time. He was highly talented and extremely energetic, he fought for social reforms, he taught his thoughts about intellectual property or against slavery in the United States...

     Some important quotes of Dickens are:

• "A loving heart is the truest wisdom".
• "A day wasted on others is not wasted in one's self".
• "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts".
• "Every failure teaches a man something new he needed to learn".

                                                                                   

More famous quotes:

• "Charity begins at home, justice begins next door"

What did he want to say?