狄更斯恰尔士·狄更斯是十九世纪英国最伟大的现实主义小说家之一,1812年生在英国南部兰德蒲城,他是全家八个小孩中的第二个。父亲约翰·狄更斯会担任海军中会计部门的小职员。由于父亲的收入少,家庭人口又日益增多,全家生活便越来越困难。狄更斯九岁的时候,父亲因无力偿债被关进了“负债者监狱”,狄更斯便被送进一家鞋油厂的仓库里去当学徒,他在这里受了许多折磨。过了两年,家庭情况略为好转,他又上学念了几年书。大量阅读古典小说,在伦敦以及泰晤士河畔的社会现实生活使他获得了广博的知识和对人生、社会的了解。 Dickens Chergs Dickens was one of the greatest realist novelists of the nineteenth century in Great Britain. Born in 1812 in Puntalo, South of England, he was the second of eight children in the family. His father, John Dickens, will serve as a clerk in the accounting department of the Navy. Due to the small income of fathers and the increasing family size, the family life will become more and more difficult. When Dickens was nine, his father was put into “jail in debt” for insolvency, and Dickens was apprenticed to a shoe polish warehouse where he suffered a great deal. After two years, the family situation is slightly improved, he read a few years to go to school. A lot of reading classical novels, in London and the River Thames real life in the community so that he gained a wide range of knowledge and understanding of life and society.