Inglese

money at exorbitant rates of interest, and who undermines their business by offering interest-free loans. Although Antonio refuses to apologize for his behavior, Shylock acts agreeably and offers to lend Bassanio three thousand ducats with no interest.
Shylock adds, however, that should the loan go unpaid, Shylock will be entitled to

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

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

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

London fairly buzzed with speculations, suggestions, and countersuggestions regarding the author's identity, as well as those of some of his characters. In Part I, for example, the Lilliputian Emperor-tyrannical, cruel, corrupt, and obsessed with ceremony-though a timeless symbol of bad government, is also a biting satire of George I, King of England (f

Twain enlisted in the Confederate militia in 1861, early in the Civil War, but he soon left to pursue a career in writing and journalism in Nevada and San Francisco. His articles and stories became immensely popular.
He moved east in the late 1860s and married Olivia Langdon, the daughter of a rich family. In those years they settled in Hartford, C