Great Ambitions: A Story of the Early Years of Charles Dickens | Overview
Great Ambitions: A Story of the Early Years of Charles Dickens provides young adults with an interesting and well-written account of Charles Dickens's life, beginning when he is twelve years old and working in a blacking factory and ending when he is twenty-seven, married, a father, and a successful writer. While the details apply to Dickens's own life, they also become universal in that he experiences typical adolescent disappointments, romances, failures, ambitions, and successes. Determined to better himself, when he is not working as a reporter for the London Chronicle,...
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