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Charles Dickens scenes from an extraordinary life

This picture book vividly dramatizes Dickens' life, beginning with his birth in Portsmouth and early childhood near the docks in Chatham, and follows the young Charles through the hardship of working in a blacking factory at the age of 10 to his years at school and his early career as a reporter. Ke...

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Main Author: Manning, Mick
Other Authors: Granstròˆm, Brita
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, c2011.
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Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography > Juvenile.
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1824 - I Must WorkIn which 12-year-old Charles is forced by his parents to get a job!"The blacking warehouse was a crazy, tumbledown house, on the river and overrun with old, grey rats. My work was to cover the pots of paste-blacking and to tie them round with a string... No words can express the secret agony of my soul! My whole nature was so penetrated with the grief and humiliation." Excerpted from Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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