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Why should you read Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? - Iseult Gillespie

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February the 7th, 1812, Charles Dickens is born

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Charles John Huffan Dickens, the eminent figure of our childhood Nativity holidays and one of the 19th century literature, was born in February the 7th, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. ( Charles Dickens Birthplace, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England ) Dickens died in June 9, 1870 in Gad's Hill, near Chatham, Kent. Charles Dickens is celebrated as the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era. His stories are set in a grim, sordid and corrupt Victorian backdrop. Satiric scenarios, rotten characters, and the depiction of the human absurdity are frequent motifs of Charles Dickens's stories. Charles Dickens enjoyed an abundant popularity during his lifetime, more than any previous author. The range, compassion, the intelligence of his apprehension of his Victorian contemporary society and its ills, enriched his novels and rendered him one of the most influential forces of the 19th century literature, as well as ...