Today we are celebrating Charles Dickens' 200th birthday . I’m sure you know some things about this great English writer. He wrote about difficult lives in the “modern” city that London was in the Victorian times. He created characters which are still very well known – Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And he wrote such great books as “David Copperfield”, “Oliver Twist”, “Great Expectations” or “A Christmas Carol”.
Nowadays Dickens is more actual than ever. "You only have to look around our society and everything he wrote about in the 1840s is still relevant," said Dickens' biographer, Claire Tomalin. "The great gulf between the rich and poor, corrupt financiers, corrupt Members of Parliament ... You name it, he said it."
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Do you think you would survive in Dickens' London? Try it
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