Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
Hardy was born near Dorchester, in Dorset, a county in
southwest England that
roughly corresponds to the “Wessex”
of his later novels. He was apprenticed to an architect and then went to London to work. There he
de [...]
Edgar
Allan Poe (1809 –
1949)
Life
E. A. Poe
was an orphan since he was two and he was adopted by a family of merchants. He
went to university but because of his interest for playing cards he had to
leave his classical studies. He wrot [...]
Eugène IONESCO
Eugène
Ionesco naît en 1912, en Roumanie, d'un père roumain et d'une
mère française. Il vit en France de 1913 à 1925, puis retourne
dans son pays natal, avant de se fixer définitivement &agr [...]
Looking into
the future
THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
The
sun will use up its hydrogen fuel and it will destroy the earth. The helium
that is left will burn into carbon.
The
sun will expand and become red hot. But it will have a much l [...]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
Coleridge’s
life was afflicted by his addiction to opium, maybe due to medical treatment.
In 1797 he met Wordsworth, and this was the beginning of the period of
intellectual collaboration that produced Ly [...]
CHARLES II AND
THE RESTORATION
The
return of Charles II from exile remarked the beginning of Restoration: infact
king, parliament, bishop and nobles were retored to their former position. The
Restoration was a period of abuot 40 years and [...]
Grammar: Relative clauses
1) Here are the other five types that
Spranger identifies.
A) Complete the texts. Put these relative clauses in
the correct places, using that as the relative pronoun.
1. [...]
The
Gothic Novel
Introduction
- The Gothic novel was the prose counterpart of Early
Romanticism, which had already found its best expression in poetry. It was a
more or less conscious revolt against the realism of such writers as Richardso [...]
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
The story: Summary
OPENING
SITUATION:
The story begins with the meeting between Sherlock
Holmes and Dr.Mortimer, a good friend of Sir Charles Baskerville. His body had
been found three [...]
ALFRED de VIGNY
FAMILLE: noble de la
Touraine, infance solitaire.
VIE: carrière militaire
abandonée, il écrit des poèsies et en prose; il se retrouve dans
les senacres.
FAITS IMPORTANTS: mort de la [...]
EDGAR ALLAN POE
§
He had an
happy childhood, but soon his parents died and he was adopted by Mrs Allan. After
her death he remained alone. He began to wrote to earn
money. He married his cous [...]
ROMANTIC POETRY
‘Romantic’ meant: “typical
of the old romances.”
From the eighteenth
century the term became: “something marked by feelings, such loneliness and
melancholy, rather than by intellect.” The romantic poets were ‘inspired [...]
A M L E T O
di W. Shakespeare
La tragedia comincia davanti al castello di Elsinoire, in Danimarca, in tempi leggendari. È la
mezzanotte di una notte fredda e Marcello e Bernardo si approssimano per dare
il cambio alle sentinelle. G [...]
ADVERTISING
Advertising user images more than any other medium because, more than a
written text, images immediately catch people's attention and convey an
immediate message.
Commercial advertising is a powerful promotional means us [...]
Report on Orwell's 1984
This
book starts in London on April fourth, 1984. The book is written partly in
third person, and partly in first person seen through the main character's
eyes. The book is divided into three distinct parts. The first pa [...]
KU
KLUX CLAN HISTORY
The Klan was started in 1866 by six
ex-Confederate soldiers. The Ku Klux Klan was created as a social club
which was called Kuklos. The phrase Kuklos in Greek means circle.
The Kuklos [...]
The strange case of
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
This story is about two
man: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and how we find out that they are the same person.
The first character we meet is Mr Utterson, whom is a lawyer. During a Sunday
walking, his [...]
COURANTS DE PENSEE AU XVII
SIECLE
1.DESCARTES ET
LE RATIONALISME. Les Français
aiment dire d’eux-memes qu’ils ont l’esprit cartésien, c’est- à-dire,
rigoureux, logique, rationnel et méthodique.
SA VIE. Descartes est une sort [...]
HAMLET
PLOT
After the death of the King
of Denmark, the Queen Gertrude, mother of the heir to the throne Prince Hamlet,
marries the king’s brother, Claudius, who comes to the throne. The king’s ghost
appears to his son and tells him the [...]
MOLL FLANDERS
Moll Flanders is the story about Lady Betty, forsaken by her
mother in tender age. After she has been for a little while with the gipsies,
she went to Colchester (Essex), where the
magistrates assigned to her a settlement [...]
