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“ sei sicura di essere incinta?” le chiese lui gentilmente.
“sei veramente sicura che stai per avere un bambino?”
“si, sono sicura”, replicò lei. “ il dottore mi ha detto che sono al secondo mese di gravidanza”. Lei iniziò a piangere. “cosa faremo? possiamo sposarci presto?”
“non piangere”, disse il giovane ragazzo. “ tutto andrà bene”. Lui

3 B ) Mr Gradgrind is a snooty teacher that never doubts about the rightnesss of his opinions. He doesn’t respects the children feelings and points of wiew. He is narrow-minded because he doesn’t take into consideration the nature of his students that are considered like “little pitchers”, only little empty vases. He has got square forefingers, and

His father was in debt, and so the Dickens family resided with him in Marshalsea Prison. Charles found work at household tasks and took a room for himself on one of the poor streets of London at the age of twelve; he was also sent to school for a few more years before he became a clerk. He moved up from there to become a stenographer at several newspape

Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Stave I
Scene I is the funeral of Scrooge’s associate, Jacob Marley, while the Scene II essentially explains us the main characteristics of Ebenezer’s Scrooge character, narrating a scene happened in his warehouse on Christmas Eve, when he refuses to give some coals to one of his employees (Cratchit) to give s

The site of the house — had it ever existed — would have been at the north end of Baker Street on the west side, near Regent's Park and Baker Street tube station. This justifies the claim of the Sherlock Holmes Museum that they occupy the real location of 221b Baker Street.
We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B

• Coal Mines Regulation Act (1908): eight-hour working days for the first time;
• National Insurance Act (1911): free medical treatment available to insured workers.
But the pre-war years of 20th century were a time of industrial unrest, strikes and violence. Some workers’ organisers sympathised with French syndicalism, according to which trade

Winston is an intellectual, a writer and work for the ministry of thought; he is the last and the only man who tries to rebel against the system and to keep the control of his inner being, the independence of thought. He’s even member of a party, a secret society which plots against the totalitarian regime in Oceania but at the end he’s arrested by the

Blair completed “Down and Out” in 1932, and it was published early the next year while he was working briefly as a schoolteacher at a private school in Hayes, Middlesex. Blair adopted the pen-name George Orwell just before “Down and Out” was published.
In December 1936, Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War

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