Letteratura Inglese

Analysis
In the General Prologue, Chaucer sets up the general structure of the tales and introduces each of the characters who will tell the tales. The characters who tell each of the tales are as important as the characters in the tales that they tell; a significant portion of the action of the Canterbury Tales takes place within the prologues to e

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He prefaces his actual reading with background information about the governess, the youngest daughter of a poor country parson from Hampshire, who at age of twenty answered an advertisement placed by a gentleman seeking a governess for his orphaned niece and nephew. The young woman, met with the gentleman on London's Harley Street. She was immediately i

- The Anglo-Saxons: after the Romans withdrew definitively, around the year 450 B.C., in Britain arrived some German tribes (Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes). Originally they destroyed the roman town and re-established the pagan values. The Celts continued to resist the invaders but suffered from internal fighting. Many Celtics people fled to the west of Brit

1881/82 - Alla pubblicazione del primo volume di poemi nel 1881, Poems, seguì un fortunato ciclo di conferenze negli Stati Uniti sui preraffaeliti e sull'estetismo. Tornato in Europa, si stabilisce a Parigi, dove scrive due drammi romantici: Vera e La duchessa di Padova. Anche a Parigi i suoi modi di gran signore e la sua conversazione brillante, in cui

1798 wrote Northanger Abbey

when her father died, her family settled at Chawton, where she produce her most nature works
→ Mansfiedl Park (1814)
→ Emma (1816)
→ Persuasion (1818)

1817: die because of Addison's disease in Winchester (buried in Winchester Cathedral)
her novel had been publishe

With Frieda, he travelled to Italy, Ceylon, Australia, North America and Mexico and wrote several books among the most remarkable is “Twilight in Italy”. He died ill with tuberculosis in France in 1930.
Lawrence’s masterpiece is “Sons and Lovers” (published in 1913). It tells about the Morels, a family, living in a poor coal-mining village, who

Celts
The Celts began to arrive from north-west Germany from 700 B.C. The Celts were remarkable to Mediterranean eyes for their height, fair skin, muscularity, blue eyes and blond hair. The Celts were technically advanced and they lived on fishing, hunting and agriculture. They were famous for their burial sites and for their hill-forts, built on th

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The expression “Industrial Revolution” usually refers to that period in which England had an economic development from 1760 to the middle of the 19th century,and it sealed the Britain’s transformation from an agricultural to an industrial country.
During this revolution , new sources of power (for example coal

Chapter two: Search for Mr Hyde
When Mr Utterson came home, he was unhappy. He ate and he took Dr Jekyll‘s will. There was written that in case of disappearance or death of Dr Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde could have all his money. The lawyer decided to find out the truth. He decided to visit Dr Lanyon, another old friend of Jekyll. They talked a little an