Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

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UPC:
9780547395746
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
11/29/2011
Release Date:
11/29/2011
Author:
Andrea Warren
Language:
english
Edition:
0
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Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change to save his countrys children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed terrible things that stayed with him: families starving in doorways, babies being dropped on streets by mothers too poor to care for them, and a stunning lack of compassion from the upper class. After his family went into debt and he found himself working at a shoe-polish factory, Dickens soon realized that the members of the lower class were no different than he, and, even worse, they were given no chance to better themselves. It was then that he decided to use his greatest talent, his writing ability, to tell the stories of those who had no voice.