"The Story of England for Young People", written by Charles Dickens for his own children in 1853, is an unusually entertaining, sparkling Dickensian humor about the great past of one of the richest bright historical events in Europe. A whole gallery of outstanding personalities will pass before the reader : The legendary King Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror, Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart, Lord Protector Cromwell and the Merry Monarch Karl, and in the stories of Dickens, replete with little-known facts and striking details, they will appear not as cold monuments, but as living people. The book is addressed both to schoolchildren who only discover the world of history, and to their parents, who often close it for themselves along with a boring textbook.