Inglese

When he was in Scotland he took up engineering and soon he gave up this studies and later he devoted himself to writing. In 1883 he married Fanny Osbourne and in 1884 he met Henry James that was an American writer very important for psychological elements introduced in his novels. He was the brother of William James.
Stevenson wrote:
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Among them Emmeline Pankhurst together with her daughter founded the women’s social and political union. The suffragettes chained themselves to fences and they broke windows and they made hangar strikes because they wanted to obtain the right to vote.
In 1909 the Prime Minister Lloyd George made a new system of taxation that penalises the unearned i

We know that at the end Dorian and the painter see the portrait who was put in an attic and covered. When Dorian sees the portrait he stabs it and Dorian himself died and the picture returns to its original purity.
At the end Dorian’s face is withered, wrinkled, loathsome in fact when people sees him died they don’t recognise him. They recognise him

Lydia: the youngest of Bennet’s family. She will escape with Mr Wicklam and she will marry him. Careless and determinated to have her own way, would hardly give them a hearing. Jane: the oldest daughter of the Bennets.
Elisabeth: called also Lizzy or Eliza. Is one of the five sisters. She often meets Dracy (they fall in love at the end). She has a p

The south sea bubble
Even though under george I manifacture, commerce, and agricolture prospered, in 1720 the South Sea Company fell. The shareholders were ruined and so south sea bubble started, the first English financial crisis.
The birth of English parties
During the reign of charles II, we have the birth of Whigs and tories. These tw

Structure: it is not based on a normal chronological sequence of events. The narration starts at the end of the story when a Mr Lockwood during the night at wuthering Height disturbed by the scratching of a branc, try to remove it, but he is touched by ice-cold fingers of the ghost of Catherine (ghotic element). Later Lockwood asks to his housekeep

HARD TIME:
A NOVEL OF DENUNCIATION

One of his most popular works is Hard Time written in 1854. This novel is a powerful accusation of some of the effects of industrial society.
Unlike romantic poets, that were used to describe nature and to ignore towns because they despised industrialization’s effects, Dickens writes novels of de

He was a disturbed person but he was also capable of profound and harmonious feelings. In fact he defended the Irish poor in many of his works, He also devoted a part of his money to charity and he found the St Patrick’s hospital for imbeciles.
Works
The battle of the books: Swift defended the ancients and he took the opprtunity to mock his m

Gulliver’s travels

Gulliver’s travels was published anonymously in 1726, under the full title : ‘Lemuel Gulliver’s travels into several remote nations of the world. Swift’s purpose, who had begun the work in 1720, was to denounce the emptiness and corruption of the society and to attack institutions and man in general.

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