Letteratura Inglese

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

He was deeply religious.

BRITISH CHARACTERS

Mrs Moore : was an old woman who had just arrived in Chandrepore from Britain. She had come to India to see her son, Ronny who was the city magistrate.
Adela: was Ronny’s fiancée, they were engaged. She had gone to Chandrepore to meet Ronny and she wanted to know “real India”.
Ronny:

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

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....

The king was elected by the witan composed by the most important nobles or thanes from the seven kingdoms. They were organized in villages. Every village was governed by the thane whose task was to make everybody obey the law and to guide his man to battle. There were no prisons, the criminals where mutilated, hanged or submitted to a trial by ordeal.

PROSE (pag.55)
Anglo-Saxon prose developed thanks to King Alfred who ordered to write the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. He was a very learned man and founded a school for nobles and he himself translated “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” by Bede and De Consolatione Filosofiae by Boezio. Then we have to remember Aelfric who translated from the Old Te

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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Il signor Earnshaw Hanno due figli
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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