Inglese

Respectability and appearance were the purpose of people.
In the Victorian novels, the voice of the narrator, who whose omniscient, provided a comment on the plot and distinguished clearly the “right” from the “wrong”. The final chapter is important because all the events are explained and justified.
The setting of most of the nove

Northern England is mountainous; the highest points are in the Lake District, in the north-west. There are hills in southern and south-western England. Central England is a large plain and most of the eastern part of the country is flat.
The Lake District is famous because two poets, called W. Wordsworth and S.T: Coleridge, went there

THE PLAGUE
The terrible plague which raged in Northern Italy (particularly Milan) in 1630 and in London in 1665 is described by Alessandro Manzoni in his The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) and by Daniel Defoe in A journal of the Plague Year. The recreation of an historical event is made convincing by the wealth of details and by the autobiographical t

In the end of 18th century there were two important events: the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in England. The French Revolution was hailed by many intellectuals as the overthrow of tyranny and the beginning of a new era. “Liberty, equality and fraternity” was the motto of French Revolution. The French philosopher Rousseau set his theor

The strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a novel set in Victorian London. A major component in Stevenson is the Scottish Presbyterian belief in predestination and one of his great themes is the conflict between good and evil. The conflict is at the basis of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A strange and fascinating work which can be read as a moral allegory

Huxley was born into an upper-middle class family in Surrey in 1984. His grandfather was a Victorian scientist who defended Darwin’s theory of evolution, and his granduncle was a famous poet and critic. His brother was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. Huxley studied at Eton where he had an eye infection which left him nearly blind. T

DANGEROUS MINDS: A US Marine, Louanne Johnson, turns from her career and an unhappy marriage into a high school English teacher, who meets resistance from kids and administration alike. Following her dream to teach, helped by a teacher friend, Louanne finds a place as English teacher in a tough urban school of a neighbourhood populated above all by

Quando rifletto su come la mia luce è spenta,
Prima della metà dei miei giorni , in questo mondo
Buio e vasto, e che questo mio unico dono che è morte
Celare, alloggiato in me inutile, nonostante la mia
Anima sia + incline a servire con ciò il mio creatore, e
Presentare il mio vero valore, nel timore che tornando sui
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From a tourist point of view, if you wanted to have a sight-seeing tour in Italy, you should visited an infinitude of cities, because Italy have perhaps the greatest number of historical places in the world. Some examples? Venice, the city on the canals; Genoa, with the biggest aquarium of Europe; Florence, Dante’s fatherland (=patria) and Rome, that