family of a poor clerk.
In 1822 his family moved to London. Life was hard for the poor people in the capital of Great Britain. Charless father did not earn enough money to support his family and was put in prison for debt. And his wife with all the children except Charles went to the prison, too.
Those were the most unhappy days in Charless life. At the age of ten he began to work at a blacking factory. The boy worked from early morning till late at night to help his family.
When his father came out of prison, Charles was sent to school. But very soon he left school to work as a clerk in a lawyers office. He also regularly went to the British Museum reading-room; he read much and in this way he educated himself.
When he was twenty years old, Dickens became a reporter in the British Parliament. Soon he came to understand that the House of Commons had nothing to do with true democracy.
He reflected his deep contempt for the so-called party struggle in one of his earliest works, the "Pickwick Papers" (1837). It is a very funny book, but there are serious and even sad parts in it.
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Read the next fragment of the text "Popular English Sports and Games" and find answers to the questions:
o At what age do children go to school in the U. S. A?
o At what age d American children pass on to secondary education?
o How long do children stay at elementary schools in some states?
Like in England, school education in the U. S. A consists of two stages: primary education and secondary education.
Primary education begins at the age of six, when children go to an elementary school. They stay at the elementary school for eight years, until the age of 14. The subjects taught at the elementar
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