Andrea Warren

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change-to save his country's children.

Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed terrible things that stayed with him: families starving in doorways, babies being "dropped" on streets by mothers too poor to care for them, and a stunning lack of compassion from the upper class. After his family went into debt and he found himself working at a shoe-polish factory, Dickens soon realized that the members of the lower class were no different than he, and, even worse, they were given no chance to better themselves. It was then that he decided to use his greatest talent, his writing ability, to tell the stories of those who had no voice.

In this book, award-winning author Andrea Warren takes readers on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of a beloved writer who used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the greatest reformers of his or any age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Seitenzahl: 165
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547677286
• Artikelnr.: 42334339

Autorenporträt

In 1996, Houghton Mifflin published Andrea Warren's first nonfiction book for young readers, Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Andrea travelled to London to do extensive research for this book; she has a master's degree in British Literature from the University of Nebraska. Andrea lives in Kansas.