After that first meeting, Dorian and Lord Henry became fast friends and frequent partners at local theatres. Henry presented Dorian with a gift - a book about a young man's passions, sins and vileness. Dorian became captivated by its plot. For years he leafed through its pages - anct the book became an entrenched, tragic guide in the life of Dorian Gray
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TEN HOURS’ ACT ( limited the working hours to ten a day for all workers.
2. (1) Great Britain experienced a period of material progress, imperial expansion, political and constitutional development. The country became a consolidate democracy with an efficient system of government.
(2) She reigned constitutionally, thus avoidin
• Mrs Umney, Canterville Chase's housekeeper.
• Sir Simon de Canterville, the ghost, a terrible old man, with burning coal eyes, long grey hair; his clothes were dirty and ragged and from his arms and legs hung heavy and rusty chains.
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• The twins threw a pillow to the ghost.
• The twins shot peas to the ghost with their peashoot
In conclusione si tenta di dimostrare che il merito della scrittrice è ben più grande di quello, generalmente attribuitole, di aver spianato la strada a scrittori più conosciuti come Joyce e Woolf. A lungo dimenticati, i volumi di Pilgrimage cominciano appena oggi ad essere oggetto di interesse da parte della critica, e forzano i confini elitari del mod
The social context: Now England was a commercial country because there was a progress of industry, of agricolture and there was also the internal political stability, the towns increased in size. This commercial expansion was good for the merchant class infact this class in this period had the power, but the noble class remained esclused by the power. T
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Les mosaïques représentent des scènes et des symboles religieux : le symbole principal est la croix qui resplendit entre les étoiles du ciel au centre de la voûte.
Sur les lunettes il y a S. Laurence, des cerfs symboliques (« ainsi que le cerf est attiré par les sources des eaux, ainsi mon âme te désire, oh Dieu »).
Et encore des fruits,
Meursault regarde. Plus tard, retourné seul vers la source qui coule à une extrémité de la plage, Meursault y rencontre l'un des Arabes. Cet homme ne lui est rien, et il n'a pas de haine, à peine le souvenir de ce qui s'est passé. Mais l'Arabe sort un couteau, la lame brille au soleil, et Meursault, qui par hasard a encore sur lui le revolver de Raymond
2) Around the year 410 the Roman legions were obliged to leave Britain and soon after Anglo-Saxons tribes coming from the North Sea invaded and conquered the country from now on known as Angles Land i.e. (that is) England. They founded 7 kingdoms and imposed their language, the Anglo-saxon language, also called “old English”.
3) During the IX
With his emphasis on human beings, their life and world, Chaucer is probably the first humanist in English literature.
His mayor work is The Canterbury Tales, which is a collection of tales told by the pilgrims going to Canterbury. During the journey each one told a story. There are twenty-four tales in the book.
The pilgrims are portr