Inglese

Soon Bernard meets Helmholtz, the emotional engineer and long-time friend who also experiences alienation from society, not due to his physical inferiority, but due to both his physical and mental superiority. Like Bernard, Helmholtz feels as though his life is not quite complete, as if there’s something else he requires. Helmholtz tries to explain

Dickens's became famous with Oliver Twist, about criminal life in London, David Copperfield, dealing with social problems and largely autobiographical, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, etc…
During this period he went also to the U.S.A., writing in defence of the slaves.

Views and Themes
Dickens is considered as a social critic and

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