About the book: 2001 / "A History of England for the Young", written by Charles Dickens for his own children in 1853, is an unusually entertaining narrative sparkling with Dickensian humor about the great past of one of the richest countries in Europe with vibrant historical events. The reader will see a whole gallery of outstanding personalities: the legendary King Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror, Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart, Lord Protector Cromwell and the Merry Monarch Charles, and in Dickens’s stories, replete with little-known facts and amazing details, they will appear not as cold monuments, but living people. The book is addressed both to schoolchildren who are just discovering the world of history, and to their parents, who have often closed it to themselves along with a boring textbook.