Charles Dickens: England's greatest writer
查爾斯·狄更斯:英格蘭的偉大作家
The novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England in 1812.
小說家查爾斯·狄更斯于1812年生于英格蘭的樸次茅斯。
Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations are probably his best-known works.
《霧都孤兒》《大衛·科波菲爾》和《遠大前程》應算是他最著名的作品了。
He first published many novels one chapter at a time in newspapers, and some were later performed on stage.
他先開始是在報紙上發表了許多小說,每次一章,有一部分后來被改編成了戲劇。
For people at that time, his stories were like the soap operas we see on TV today.
對那時的人們來講,他的故事就好象我們今天在電視上看的肥皂劇一樣。
He died in 1870. His tomb reads, "By his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world."
他于1870年去世。他的墓碑上寫著:他的逝去,使世界上少了一位英國最偉大的作家。