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2 giorni fa · Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
29 mag 2024 · David Copperfield, novel by English writer Charles Dickens, published serially in 1849–50 and in book form in 1850. David Copperfield has always been among Dickens’s most popular novels and was his own “favourite child.”
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29 mag 2024 · Oliver Twist. novel by Dickens. Also known as: “Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy’s Progress” Kate Lohnes. Kathleen Lohnes was an editorial intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2017 and 2018. She received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and creative writing in 2020 at the University of Iowa. Kate Lohnes. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
3 giorni fa · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
17 mag 2024 · Frederick Law Olmsted, 1856 ; Thomas Hart Benton, 1857 ; Thomas Colley Grattan, 1859 ; 1860s Toggle Dropdown. ... Observations of Lowell by Charles Dickens ...
1 giu 2024 · Usually he took his subjects and characters from contemporary English society, but in this novel he created one of the most enduring and pessimistic English–language portrayals of the French Revolution, particularly the fearsome female "knitters" of the Faubourg Saint–Antoine in Paris, like Madame Defarge, to whom he attributes much of the Revol...
6 giorni fa · La sua infanzia viene sconvolta dall’irruzione di due adulti: il criminale Magwitch e la bizzarra e ricca Miss Havisham. Esaltato a “grandi speranze” dalla ricchezza che la vecchia signora sembra destinargli, il giovane rompe i legami d’affetto con il villaggio per recarsi a Londra, fatalmente attratto dalla city borghese e dalle ...
