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Informationen zum Autor Charles Dickens! whose pen name was Boz! is regarded by many as one of the world`s greatest authors. His father! a navy clerk! was - like the fathers in many of Dickens` novels - constantly in and out of debtor`s prison! and Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory at the age of twelve. His parents` failure to educate him was a source of great bitterness to him! and he reacted to this indifference by working incredibly hard for his entire life. Beginning as an office boy in a lawyer`s office! in time he became a parliamentary reporter and then a journalist. He wrote The Pickwick Papers at the age of twenty-four! and captured the popular imagination in a way no other novelist had done previously. He continued writing and reading his works in public until his sudden death in 1870. Three classic tales from the master storyteller, read by three highly acclaimed actors - John Wells, Martin Jarvis and Alex Jennings, now on CD for the first time. Zusammenfassung Three classic tales from the master storyteller, read by three highly acclaimed actors - John Wells, Martin Jarvis and Alex Jennings, now on CD for the first time.