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• It is a dark, cold Thursday morning in Fevruary, 1824.
• A little boy, twelve years old, is slowly walking through the dirty, slushy streets of London.
• He doesn't go to school. No, he has just left his room in Camden to work in a shoe polish warehouse.
• His fingers and clothes look dirty and shabby, and his shoes have holes in them.
• He is always hungry. There's only one shilling left in his pocket and he will get no more money until Saturday .
• The boy's name is Charles.
• The boy's name is Charles .
• He was born in Portsmouth but...
• ...the family moved to Chatham when he was five.
• They had lots of friends and gave big parties. They even had servants .
• But his father was careless with money.
• When he couldn't pay his bills, he ended up in prision and had to leave his job.
• Charles's mother, his younger sister and two brothers are staying there with him now, and every Sunday Charles and his older sister visit the rest of the family.
• Charles hates to be alone and he hates his dull job, putting labels on shoe polish pots.
• But he has to work - twelve hours a day, six days a week.
• He only gets six shillings a week.
• There is a chill and blowing.
• He walks on, shivering with cold.
• When he turns around into the Strand (gata i London) and sees the ugly, black building in front of him,
• he feels a pang in he's heart.
• He thinks that life is so unfair .
• But in nine years, things will get better. He will be working as a journalist for the Morning Chronicle .
• His knowledge of what it is to be poor, lonely, dirty, hungry and cold will be usefull for him one day.
• In 1838, Charles Dickens begin to write a very famous novel.
• The novel he wrote is called Oliver Twist .

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