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James
Joyce
Life
Joyce was an Irishman, and he was
born in 1882 in Dublin. He was son of John Stanislaus Joyce, that had a good
job and a reasonable economic position. James’s father is a big influence in
his work, thanks to his many faults [...]
A Tale of Two Cities
Introductory
In the eighteen-fifties,
Charles Dickens was concerned that social problems in England,
particularly those relating to the condition of the poor, might provoke a mass
reaction on the scale of the Frenc [...]
KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace
became a royal residence in 1689 when William III and Mary II purchased Nottingham house and commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to
trasform it into a palace.
The building has seen such events as the deat [...]
History, Culture
and Literature
1. THE YEARS 1901-1918
LIBERAL REFORM UNDER EDWARD
VII
On
Queen Victoria’s
death, her son Edward
VII (1904-l0) came to the [...]
“Justice is done”
The passage refers to the last chapter of the
novel.
Tess’s sister and Clare are leaving
Wintoncester. They walk with bowed heads, hand in hand they look dejected. They
reach a hill and from there they look down at the town [...]
A
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (sogno di una notte di
mezz’estate)
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
-THESEUS, Duke of Athens
-HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed
(fidanzata) to Theseus
-EGEUS, an old man, father to Hermia
-LYSANDER, young [...]
Mary
Shelley
1797-1851
Life
Mary had a life full of trouble and suffering.
Her mother died a
few days she has born and after two years her father married. William Godwin
was a philosopher and his house was visited by some of the mos [...]
THE GRAVEYARD POETRY
THOMAS GRAY (1716 - 1771)
Works: he wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Gray took more than seven years to write this elegy, which
wa [...]
Coleridge's
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part of
Coleridge's daemonic group of poems, which also includes Christabel and Kubla
Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the story of the Romantic
archetype, the Wanderer, the ma [...]
[...]
MACBETH.
ACT I - SCENE V
After a victorious battle Macbeth, a Scottish general, meets three witches which
predict that he will become King.
Lady Macbeth
is alone in her castle and she is reading a letter received from her husband, Mac [...]
Wilfred Owen 1893 – 1918
One of the most significant war poets was Wilfred
Owen. He caught trench fever on the Somme and was hospitalised in Edinburgh; during this
period he met and was deeply influenced by Sigfried Sassoon. He went back to
[...]
Essay on
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
by William Shakespeare
1) Title
2) Sources
3) Date of composition
[...]
CHARLES
DICKENS
Life.
He was born at Landport in 1812.
He sent to work in a shoe-blacking factory in London to help his
father, imprisoned for debts.
This experience marked the beginning of
Dickens' s social commitment and identifi [...]
IL COMPARATIVO
Può essere di uguaglianza,
di minoranza e di maggioranza
COMPARATIVO DI
UGUAGLIANZA
Si forma mettendo so davanti all‘aggettivo o all‘avverbio
e wie davanti al secondo termine di
paragone
ß
Mart [...]
Little red riding hood
And
when she said, "Good morning," there was no answer. Then she went up
to the bed and drew back the curtains; there lay the grandmother with her cap
pulled over her eyes, so that she looked very odd.
&q [...]
Greenwich Observatory
Greenwich
Observatory, astronomical observatory, east central England,
located at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy.
The original site of the observatory in Greenwich
was arbitrarily established in 1884 as [...]
HISTOIRE DE LA LITTERATURE FRANÇAISE
·
LE MOYEN AGE
Le Moyen Age va de la fin de l’Empire romain
jusqu’à la fin du XV siècle. Cette période a produit une
littérature originale qui a été r [...]
DUBLINERS
By JAMES JOYCE
James
Joyce is one of the best known novelist, short story writer and poet of the
whole Ireland. He was born the 1882 in Rathgar,
Dublin, and died in the 1941. He was educated at a Jesuit school and a [...]
