"He was a social reformer," says actor Simon Callow, author of a new biography called Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.

　　"He knew what poverty was. He knew what it was to be rejected, to be cast aside, to

　　live in squalor (悲惨)."

　　And so Dickens wrote with great sympathy for the suffering of innocent and vulnerable (易受攻击的) children - characters like David Copperfield, Little Dorrit and the orphan, Oliver Twist:

　　With his slice of bread in his hand, and his little brown parish cap on his head, Oliver was now led away from the wretched home, where one kind word or look never lighted the gloom of his infant (幼儿) days.

　　Yet he burst into an agony of childish grief as the cottage gate closed after him.

　　Wretched as were the little companions in，misery he was now leaving behind him, they were the only friends he had ever had.

　　His first book Sketches by Boz came out in 1836. With the appearance of Oliver Twist in London periodicals in 1837, the 25-year-old Dickens became the most popular writer in England. But his first love was theater, and he considered becoming an actor.

　　"When he was actually writing, he became his characters," says Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion. "He would get up from his desk, go over to the mirror and mouth the words - do the expressions, grimaces (嵬脸), whatever, and then laugh, chuckle to himself, then go back to his desk and write it down."

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