Useful, under the pen name, novels, the title, short stories, own, to earn his living, to become, succeeded in, used to, the glory.
Charles Dickens: a man of letters. A great British writer Charles Dickens succeeded in showing feelings and thoughts of a child in his novels and short stories. Dickens’s own childhood began in a very little house near Portsmouth in 1812. As a child he got to know happiness with his family and unhappy years in London. At 15 he began to earn his living as an office boy. He wanted to become a journalist. He spent much time in the Reading Room of the British Museum educating himself. Later he used to say say that the time spent there was the most useful time of his life. Dickens became one of the best reporters of London. At the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories under the pen name of “Boz”. In 1836 he published his stories under the title “Sketches by Boz”. This was the beginning of the great British writer, the glory of the British literature.
