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Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday


Charles dickens (1812-1870), English Victorian era author. He wrote numerous highly acclaimed novels. He works against the social evils, unjustice, and hypocrisy. That reflects his life miseries.
His famous books are A Tale of Two Cities
•Oliver Twist
•David Copperfield
•Pickwick Papers
•Dombey and Son
•A Christmas Carol
•Great Expectations
•Barnaby Rudge
•Nicolas Nickle

He wrote so many quotes few golden words of Charles Dickens’s are following;
•There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

•Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
•No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
•A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
•An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
•There were times when could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any woman of the world.

Charles Dickens is including in those writers who never die and people always remind them in a good manner. Charles Dickens’s museum is one of those examples.