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This novel launched him into the public eye and helped him to become the amazing writer and creator of the Wessex novels, as we know him today.
The major turning point in Hardy's life was the reception of his novel, Jude the Obscure. Because of the major conflict concerning the book and it's readers, Hardy swore to never write fiction again.
In

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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

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In 1827 he published his first volume of writing and continued to write poems, tales and essays.
After eight years, Poe married his cousin Virginia, a girl of thirteen, in order to secure a home for his aunt, the mother of his wife. Unfortunately, Virginia died when she was only twenty-five years old.
In 1837, Edgard Allan Poe spent eighteen mon

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In the meantime Stoker became a regular guest of Sir William and Lady Wilde, the parents of Oscar Wilde, and was drawn into Lady Wilde's literary and artistic circle of friends. He competed with Oscar Wilde for the hand of Florence Balcombe, a beautiful young woman who was the daughter of a lieutenant-colonel. Florence chose Bram, and the two were marri

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Narrator: In the text we have a third person narrator who tells us the course of facts.

Setting of the story: The actions take place in England and in Switzerland, more precisely in Zurich. The period is not mentioned.

Description of the main characters:
• Inspector Moore: He was a police's inspector who was looking for the fa

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Wilde’s stories and essays were well received, but his creative genius found its highest expression in his plays—Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
In the nineties, he was accused of homosexuality by the Marquis of Queensbury, father of

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Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based major events in the book on ones from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish

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➢ BRIEF SUMMARY
ACT 1.
At the opening of the play, Iago and Roderigo are engaged in a conversation about Othello who has just eloped with Desdemona who has refused Roderigo’s offer of marriage. We learn from Iago’s words that he hates his general Othello and Othello’s lieutenant, Cassio. He advises Roderigo to inform Brabantio of his daughter’s

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On a field, sable, The letter A, gules.
Analysis
This masterpiece is famous because a woman is the heroine of the story.
•Hester Prynne is a very different type of heroine: she is a strong, determined woman. She is rebellious and refuses authority. Her suffering, her punishment and social isolation make her an indipendent individual. Wit