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Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He was__1__of a clerk in a government office. When Charles was still a little boy, his father was sent to prison for__2__. In those days, men who__3__quite small amounts had to stay in__4__until the debt was paid.
When Charles was 12, he had to work in a factory. The only formal education he__5__was a twoyear schooling at a school for__6__children. His career as a__7__of novels began in 1833 with short stories and essays(散文)in periodicals, and in 1837, when he was 25, his short stories were__8__into the novel “The Pickwick Papers”， which made him the most__9__author of his time in England.
Charles Dickens had__10__of the unhappy life of many poor people. In years of hard work in various__11__jobs, Charles met many people, young and old, rich and poor, happy and__12__. He had unusual energy and unusual powers of observation.
