The idea of \u200b\u200bthis post was created following the preparation of the first English exam, which consisted of two parts, one written and oral. Both piuttos
to challenging and well beyond the intermediate level so that conclamavan or program! But this is a matter that goes beyond what I'm going to expose, in when I'm here to explain to Dickens and his extraordinary talent. The syllabus prescribed two works by this author di cui ho letto quasi tutto: A TALE OF TWO CITIES ( le due città) e, naturalmente, DAVID COPPERFIELD (Ed. Pinguin Book). Così, approfittando dell'obbligo un iversitario, ho rinfrescato la memoria col suo romanzo più autobiografico e mi sono sentita spinta a scrivere una recensione sul mio scrittore inglese preferito. Ed eccola qui.
Nell'introduzione a DAVID COPPERFIELD , dell'ediz ione in esame, è spiegato che Dickens scrisse sul suo romanzo, tempo dopo:
" Of all of my books, I like this best. Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of Hearts a favorite child. And His name is David Copperfield. "
And we know that Dickens was more fond of this and that, in the heart of his heart, there was a special spot reserved for his favorite child: David Copperfield Exactly!
Like him, Charles had an unhappy childhood and difficult, which had largely described in that, like his creature David, including having to leave the school, where he was good to get a lav pray in a factory, even children, to help the family cabin, after his father was imprisoned for debt.
But we will deal with the c later. DAVID COPPERFIELD
however, was not published as a novel as autobiography. Dickens did not intend, nor his desire was never to be identified in the main character, by his contemporaries, having its good and painful reasons. We had put all of himself to erase the stain of her humiliating past, the readers, s ccording to the 1945 biography of a Pope-Hennessy, not never had any idea of \u200b\u200bbeing in front of a tale largely autobiographical (p. 342).
The confession of the author to have included many autobiographical anecdotes, Dickens had it only to a person, not the entire public.
The sad story of youth, yet so lyrically evoked in the form of art, can not do, however, failing to consider a more detailed analysis of the miseries of young English novelist, to reach the essence and meaning of the innermost his poetry, that is, make sure how he would transform the reality and what are the reasons for the building of its m
ondo aesthetic, which, in summary, was the sentimental world tastic fans of Dickens. In this great writer's the enso of injustice, the d isparità-class of property and fortune, was inherent in advance that would address the painful experiences of young people, to make him aware of the cruelty that some people born with the already stuffed shirt, who, however, must actually obtain it, just as he was aware, as a child, the fact that often because of this disparity, there was a relationship of dependence on more than less. The paternal grandmother, sketched in Fig ura Mrs. Rouncewell of Bleak House (Bleak House) , she married u n servant, later promoted to major-domo in the house of a member of the European Par to John Crewe. Widow, the woman was left for others serve 35 years in the house, having to maintain two sons, William and John, father of the novelist.
will be thanks to the intervention of John Crewe Dickens returned to work at the Navy pay office, where he met Thomas Ba rrow, his colleague, with whom came to the point in friendship, to marry, some you mpo later, his sister Elizabeth.
I never saw Barrow take kindly to this' union, even though they had consented to the marriage, they were convinced of their supposed social superiority, compared to Dickens.
Elizabeth's father, Charles, in fact, was a civil servant of degree rather high, which did not prevent it proceeded against him for embezzlement, two years after the marriage of the parents of our novelist, in 1811. Even this reverse
moral and financial help in lowering the air and the presumption of Barrow's older generation, to her husband of Elizabeth, although Charles Barrow himself, for shame, left England
outlined the social background of the family-Dickens Barrow, pre-arrival or Charles, it seems obvious to proceed now with the actual bio-bibliography of the 800 greatest English novelist and my favorite since childhood.
CHARLES
second of eight children, two of whom died as children, was born at Portsea, near Portsmouth, February 7, 1812, because his father, working in his wanderings, had been transferred there. Pilgrimages continued: in 1814, in London and then to Chatham, 18 17, in which location, because of economic hardship, more and more strong, the family had to move, rather than specific xed by one house to another to meet the situations can be less costly.
In 1822, of Chatham, the Dickens were forced, once again, to return to London, while the lively imagination of the young Charles began definitely to be populated rural landscapes and life experiences lived in urban neighborhoods and suburban, years later, will include, to the delight of our readers, in his works.
The first child was Charles cultural training, then, gr Azie novels in paperback, which picked up where his father John came along.
little strong cost institution, rather too sickly, Charles took no part in the games with their peers, preferring the company of these books entertaining themselves for hours to read the novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, the curate of WAKEFIELD , by Oliver Goldsmith, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, The Thousand and One Nights, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, the articles in the Tatler (The Tatler) and the Observer, Joseph Robert Addison and Steele, the farces gathered by Mrs. Inchbald and everything that's happened in his hands. Not surprisingly, later remembered with affection in DAVID COPPERFIELD, the glorious array , which kept the company in a nni already poor economic conditions of families, but serene and still far from the torment that will accompany the Dickens in the sea of \u200b\u200bdebt that will collapse later.
When the family was still living in Chatham, Charles and his sister but ggiore, Fanny, had to master a Baptist pastor, Father William Giles, who first recognized the great talents of his young pupils, to which he thought well of plasma indicates the sense of form in the prose of Goldsmith. And when John Dickens was forced to return with a family, working in London, the young Charles was still a bit 'in the school of Father Giles, as a boarder.
SPRING 1823 Charles joined the family, now in a permanent position in the London suburb of Camden Town, appeared often in his novels. When it came time of separation from the beloved teacher of young Charles, William Giles, the latter gave him a rare complete collection of a small periodical "The Bee" (the bee), Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1759, for a few weeks only. It is likely which, thanks to this tribute, in p iccolo Charles, was born the passion for the periodical press, which took him many years later, the publication of Household Words (familiar words) and All the Year Round ( year-round).
From this period, lived in Camden Town, began the real psycho-physical labor of the young Charles, who hoped to be reinstated in school instead of being destined to do the housework, while the worsening economic conditions family.
and her older sister, Fanny, however, thanks to the intercession of a family friend, was able to fit into a music school, in where he remained four years.
One of the first episodes was the bitter initiative, destined to fall on deaf ears, Mrs. Dickens: create a school for girls.
leafleting I, neighborhood by neighborhood, occurred at the hands of young Dickens, filed by an ad in the mail.
The initiative, as stated above, fell into the void, but later, by which time Charles had become rich and famous, wheeled out by creating the "Retired p er Misses directed by Mrs. Micawber, in David Copperfield . Figure
Mrs. Micawber, in fact, Dickens shaded sections of his mother, a woman with a heart of gold, but a bit 'vacant and unconscious, which, although from a wealthy family, had given body and soul to a man (Mr Micawber), but of good pasta, but financial mismanagement, just c ome the same father of the novelist.
Charles's mother, Elizabeth Barrow, we must remember, however, just to sound a bit 'its cultural background, which was the first real teacher, even as it taught him the rudiments of Latin.
The situation, meanwhile, continued to fall even more. John Dickens
ignored, even preached good and evil scratching, just like his fictional projection and acc umul debts to creditors in blissful unconsciousness , becoming send bought the goods at his home, godendosela, then, at ease, until the a situation culminated with the insolvency of imprisonment for debt, as was the law at that time in England.
The same books that the young Charles had loved so much that he jealously guarded in his attic, were among the items he brought to sell (what torment! If I were forced to sell the mine, would be the end for me!)
It was in this sad context that a family friend offered to parents of a bibliophile, the unfortunate idea to get involved, to find employment for the child. And the selection of the savior did not go very far, because he fell on the shop floor of shoe polish to his cousin, making it look like a blessing come to call, if not quite right the situation, at least a dab.
But what the other looked like a promising innovation was to Charles, always and only poison!
The day the task while celebrating his twelfth birthday, on 02/07/1824, Literacy in the poor or grass, faded COMPLETION institution hope to go back to school, already wounded by treatment, very questionable, given to him than his sister. The larger wound that took forever in my heart and revealed openly in many of his novels, he was indifferent incomprensione dei genitori, i quali gioirono, invece, all'arrivo della notizia, poiché vedevano il loro figlio, come una fonte di reddito che avrebbe alleviato la loro sofferenza. A lui non chiesero nemmeno co sa ne pensasse e se fosse contento di andare a lavorare!
Nonostante tutto, però, pochi giorni dopo l'assunzione del ragazzino nella fabbrica, John Dickens fu arrestato e rinchiuso, per debiti insoluti, nella tetra prigione di Marshall Sea, descritta molto dettagliatamente, più tardi, in romanzi come IL CIRCOLO PICKWICK , ma soprattutto ne LA PICCOLA D ORRIT .
In capo a pochi mesi, dunque, il destino si rovesciò da solo: la Charles's maternal grandmother died leaving her niece Elizabeth, a legacy of £ 250, which put John to pay his debts, out of squalor Marshall Sea and remain in fair condition, raising hopes the boy to drop hated the job to return to school in the middle of the beloved books.
At that time, among other things, had also occurred in an argument with a family friend, who had f take place in John, despite remove Charles from the factory to send him back to school. But Elizabeth, oppostasi firmly, even went in person at the factory, to remedy the situation ... succeeding. This episode of discord, was what more dug a furrow in the soul of the already wounded Charles! -How could he ask himself - his mother be so indifferent to a child so young? Prefer him to continue to pack cans of shoe polish, however, know that in school?
Fortunately, the parent, this time, was adamant, and introduced the boy in a school from tito most pompous substantial "Classical and Commercial Academy, directed by a Mr. Jones. There
Charles stayed there two years, during which he could regain a bit 'of knowledge lost, to purchase other essential. But it is certain that the baggage of previous joy and grief the gulf between those who, from who has not, acted on the soul already deeply felt by the young Charles, certainly more than what they were able to do Latin or mathematics, history or music de ll '" Academy "of Mr. Jones. The
childhood fantasies, nurtured by the life events that succeeded one another, shaped the future written unit so that, by not doing so never become a man or culture, nor a destiny foretold by intellectual. In fact, when he had the chance, took walking around Latinists and lexicographers, all overloads considered pedantic and frankly unnecessary frills. The mindset of the novelist Dickens is considered, in fact, the critics, specifically Intu itiva. If you try to tell him, the man with the reformer, the reformer by the artist and the artist from the Creator, we are led to believe that if Dickens had lived, other experiences in his youth, he might have taken less exhibitionist and boastful attitudes and the same excesses of his side's reformer arebbero were certainly less drastic when he denounced the solemn condemnation of the many social ills, while reflecting a lot of nostalgia for the comforts and privileges of those who had more , which ended with the approval of General , himself. If the artist was, however, Dickens more aware of the means available to him and the great power inherent in the use of these, he might have dealt with different themes in his books, but the highest quality creative would, no doubt, remained unchanged and under his careful aim and desecration, to which did not escape any special, could not, in essence, to change, because human affairs and innate, in Dickens, never had trouble finding a p anointed meeting, happy and enviable results.
Each mod or the grim childhood of Charles reached its zenith in the sad story of the mother's attempt to keep him in the blacking factory, setting up, irreparably, that the Swiss Jungian analyst, Peter Schellenbaum, brilliantly called "the wound of unloved" in his eponymous book. In fact, later, Dickens admitted, in his biography of Foster, "The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74), he never forgot what his mother did, but to send him back to work, is, depending on how he saw, in the guise disrespectful to Mrs. Nickleby, which, in turn, do not ever recognize its projection in the literature, even laughing at the heart of the long rambling speeches that this woman spoke in the book (to be read completely!).
suffered the same fate his father John, played under the bizarre character of Mr. Micawber , as it was, again, for the mother, in the guise the wife of the latter. But back to
of our childhood.
Once won, by John Dickens, the battle to delay the child to school to the young Charles was finally able to get back into a size more suited to him, though still far from the goal he sought, almost unconscious. Therefore, served as an assistant in a law firm, and learned shorthand, which made him become, soon, the stenographer parliamentary fastest in England, assigned to a minor newspaper, The True Sun (the real sun), and Subsequently, the most important Ch Morning ronicle (news in the morning).
Despite the bright start to this promising career in journalism, the young Charles was aimed higher, and rightly so, I would say!
With the artistic ambition was also a new angle to the surface, but love, to Maria Beadnell, daughter of a banker, but with a brain of a hen, which made him, at first, and then madly in love in the lurch so sudden and unexpected.
Surely in this there was a hand goodbye Dry the disparity of classes of origin. This was without a brain in love, despite everything, to plant along the novelist who retaliated by celebrating it in the figure of Dora silly, fatuous, the first wife of David Copperfield, "The child bride," to intend DERC. Twenty years after the
Beadnell, already become Mrs. Winter, returned to the surface demanding to renew the romance youth where he had left, while the novelist, now famous, he defended himself in all ways from the approaches love of women, so unbearably empty and talkative.
Revenge literary Dickens, against Maria Beadnell, fixed, indelibly, in the enormous stupidity of the Flora Little Dorrit. But Dickens always persevered intact the memory of the ancient and unpredictable young love, which had forced him to wander around London since the early hours am due of his sufferings of love. And this, those who have read David Copperfield, I can clearly find in the care and respect that David had, until the end, to Dora, which gave even, the point of death, an unsuspected wisdom, when does say that conscious of his pretty irresponsible and that David would have deserved a more mature and wise woman of her.
WRITER FINALLY!
The heartbreak of Charles did not prove so hurt by dis
toglierl or point of neglecting the beloved world of letters, if a famous one autumn evening 833, sent to a young stenographer Monthly Magazine manuscripts, showing the story MR Minns and his cousin, including three years later, in MODELS OF BOZ and originally titled a lunch POPLAR WALK . Some if ttimana later, the young man's heart will surely Dickens you risked breaking the intense joy on seeing his story published in the magazine, but anonymously, not having signed at the time of shipment.
See printed his first attempt letter I told the writer in due course, filled with joy and pride, so that for the thrill, having the eyes dimmed with tears, had to take refuge in the cathedral of Westminster, where he walked up and down restlessly, not feeling able to appear in the streets and show everyone .
to that story was followed by others, always on the Monthly Magazine, then the Morning Chronicle and still sull'Evening Chronicle (the evening paper) and various others. Imagine what splancavano
horizons for the first time novel writer, to which was added allietante the prospect of better economic conditions. These rosy
and unexpected perspective made him take his first impulsive action, c ui, years later, of course, you repented: court, with the intent to marry a daughter of George Hogarth, the editor in chief dell'Evening Chronicle.
Hogarth had four daughters: Kate (Catherine), the eldest of 19 years, Mary 15, George and Helen of 7 to 3. The choice fell on higher Ka you, and impulsivity that characterized the married 04/02/1836.
few months after the wedding, all the writings in periodicals published in previous years were included in one volume-the first of Charles, entitled SKETCH BY BOZ (Sketches by Boz), derived from the nickname that the writer had given Moses his younger brother, Augustus, in memory of the "Vicar of Wakefield" (Because the little Augustus, speaking through the nose, the cripple in a sound similar to boz).
The fame did not wait. A SKETCH BY BOZ followed The Pickwick Papers, who first episode from the initial 400 copies in circulation went up in no time at all, to 40,000 of the Fifteenth. If fame was the first to reach the young Dickens, this time was even overwhelmed by the glory! The constant literary fortune, from that moment, will never fail and the writer literally live in symbiosis with the world created by his mind and reproduced in print. Novels, short stories, travel diaries and various articles published later in Household W orld and All The Year Round represent the vast and varied production and literary Ch arles Dickens.
Few events affect the lives of a novelist, but they recorded so much that form the substratum of his narrative world (Carlo Izzo).
All but one of those already listed and unexpected: the death of his young sister Mary, second daughter of George Hogarth, his stepfather, who struck him like a stab to the heart, so as to cause him to capture the missing girl, in all the figures of young girls as well innocent and described in his novels, especially in the young and gentle de Nell OLD'S SHOP Antiquary (The Old Curiosity Shop), as well as the small Paul Dombey & SON (Dombey and Son). And Dickens, as a sign of perpetual memory of the pain felt at the loss of sister-in took forever to finger the ring that slipped off on his deathbed.
I mentioned earlier, the literature of this great English novelist, who was not limited only to draw novels or short stories, but ven travel diaries. It dates back, in fact, in 1842, the first trip to Dickens in America, believed to be truly the land of freedom, ter ra promise where they had been applied to the letter the principles of the French Revolution e. Now tightly wrapped in the arms of celebrities, Dickens crossed the Atlantic, in the grip of his usual impulsiveness that he did find in front of one of the most bitter disappointments ever suffered in his life. He had never considered the slavery of blacks and their inhuman living conditions, or that the American mindset could be anything but what they feared, that is far away from the concept of democracy that he had formed. In addition, the American guests who had accepted, initially with enthusiasm, turned against because of his angry against the custom publishing of its publications pirate, which often books of English authors reported accurately without having to pay the latter even a very small share of royalties.
The journey in which Dickens had placed such high hopes, ended in the worst way. In this shocking experience, was followed by the publication of its AMERICAN NOTES and a year later, the novel MARTIN CHUZZLEWITZ , part of which is precisely set in America, of course described in unflattering terms.
Passeran not many years before the author changes his mind, but only in part, on the opinion that the British had formed in America. A novelty, however, from entering
or in private life Dickens, on his return from America: the presence, always p ver insistent, in-law Geo rgina, which became, gradually, the most important of the house, to replace nearly all the lawful wife of the writer, his sister Kate, in public appearances. Dickens was clear disappointment in realizing that he married the four sisters Hogarth, the less corresp ondente tastes. Neither can be considered exemplary father if the birth of tenth child (seven males and three females) wrote, without any restraint: "My wife gave me nu mere 10. I would have done without 's tribute . Or I have half a mind to pray, the bishop of London to celebrate a function in St. Paul, in order to implore you consider I've done enough to increase the population of my country "
Finally, a friend became a father at last, had the courage to say " I do congratulate you, because I can not bear to receive congratulations when born a son to me. " Of his seven sons, one ended up in A ustralia and another died of pernicious fever, contracted in India during the sea voyage to Europe.
Dickens was the case of model moral law of his time to preach good and scratching pr oprio please!
As for other trips made by the writer and reported in many journals, there to remember that in Europe in 1844. For the first time on the old continent, Dickens visited northern Italy, settling for short periods even in Genoa, Rome, Naples and Florence, the city where he was the thickest British community in Italy. From
stay in the Italian cities began PICTURES FROM ITALY, what impressions would be more evident in the interest of the patient teased human panorama, which the historical and artistic characteristics of the places visited. According to critics, to Dickens lacked all sense of history, as evidenced by the two historical novels, BARNABY ROUDGE and A Tale of Two Cities (the cities).
THE TWO PASSIONS
From early youth Dickens had fed two great passions: theater and magazines. And, back from a European trip, set to work to achieve both. Po co missed, in fact, he became an actor, through participation in charity performances, one of which even saw the Queen Victoria, while, with regard to the periodical press, on 03/30/1849, presented the first issue of Household Words, the magazine that he founded and which he published in serial form, "Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the best novels of English 800. But in 1859, after court case un'incresciosa con i soci della rivista, ne fondò un'altra All The Y ear Round.
Arricchitosi ed imborghesitosi, ormai, Dickens aveva imparato bene la lezione: difendere i propri interessi era la cosa principale.
Un'altra delle sue genialate, nel 1853, fu la mania di leggere in pubblico episodi selezionati dai suoi romanzi, aspetto che soddisfaceva il suo antico amore per il teatro drammatico.
Da un primo isolato episodio, iniziò una lunga serie di apparizioni analoghe, che contribuirono, di sicuro, ad accorciare la vita dello scrittore per trasformarla in dicitore.
Nello stesso anno intraprese un nuovo viaggio sul vecchio continente, in compagnia dell'amico scrittore Wilkie Collins, col quale scrisse, più tardi, THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE Apprentices (lazy journey of two idle apprentices), impressions the north of England.
Since, in 1853, began almost by chance, to read in pu
bblico passages of his novels, then became the main activities of Dickens, who was accompanied by an unjustified thirst for profit, as with income of his books, even failed to buy a f grandfather villa near London, who dreamed of owning as a child, Gad's Hill Place,-now become an exclusive girls' boarding school. " Returning to the readings need to emphasize the excessive preference of Dickens episode, OLIVER TWIST taken from, where it is perpetrated the murder of Nancy. The readings in public, according to testimony giunteci, appear to cause excitement among the people. It tells of women prey to fainting, men groaned in unison to the horror and tension in the face of heinous crimes such as listening to the above. Fat to is, however, that while it certainly has in recitative, Dickens is a unique case of spontaneous genius, eccentric tastes and the low cultural level, never altered thereafter.
SEPARATION
The last phase of the life of English writer is characterized by an event that was already in the air for a while ': the separation his wife Kate, his companion that Dickens never found for him.
The Victorian hypocrisy that prevailed at that time the scandal hid behind screens moralistic, tricks useless in a case like that. These events that led him to write an unfortunate self-defense, what was rumored to Household Words. The
sister Georgina, of course, took his defense publicly, appearing in his old FIA nco even after separation. Even when Dickens fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress, Georgina tolerated, if not favored, this his inclination. The vitality of Dickens
bullying led to the capture Ternan in the character of Bella Wilfer female protagonist of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (our mutual friend), beautiful and fatuous, which will change the mind in mid-novel the reader about his dislike superficiality, leaving him out of unsuspected depth.
The last years of the novelist's life were marked by a flurry of activity readings Liche pub that left him exhausted and seriously undermined his health, being already old. The
09/06/1865, Dickens and his new flame, Ellen Ternan, on a trip were killed in a train accident, from which emerged unharmed while the nerves of the novelist suffered a profound shock.
Despite everything, however, the fever of work che lo divorava, lo riportò in America, nel 1867, per un nuovo ciclo di letture, che gli riservò un ritorno trionfante. Sui vecchi dissapori era stata messa una pietra sopra; così Dickens riconobbe che molte cose, nel frattempo erano migliorate; mentre s'impegnava ad aggiungere alle sue AMERICAN NOTES e a MAR TIN CHUZZLEWITZ , una nota di ritrattazione alle precedenti tesi del 1842, nelle quali criticava aspramente il costume politico americano, oltre ad accusare gli americani di vanagloria e mentalità scarsamente commerciale.
Al suo rientro in Gran Bretagna, Dickens proseguì la sua attività a livelli vertiginosi, congedandosi dal pubblico solo il 1-3-1870, conscious of not more than enjoy good health and no longer able to continue with these rhythms.
In April of that year, returned to his first love, he published the first episode of EDW IN Drood, the last unfinished novel, which belongs to a genre is not alien to him (see Bleak House , Bleak House), the yellow or the detective whose final will continue to bet, because the solution lies in the grave with those who conceived.
Charles Dickens died suddenly on 8-6-1870, after working all day to the novel, leaving no clue as to foresee the imminent end. It was reported that, during lunch, the novelist rose suddenly to announce that he would go to London immediately. But he could not explain why, because a moment later fell to the ground due to a brain hemorrhage.
Although surrounded by the affection of his women, Ellen Ternan, Kate and Georgina Hogarth, Dickens not regained consciousness the next day, on 06.09.1870, died. Indeed, the news of his death, was all he had learned as a mourning family, although most affected children can be represented in the application which had one of them, then, with tears in his eyes E 'Dickens dead? Then Father Christmas die too! . The novelist is in fact known by children especially for the famous collection of Christmas carols.
The 14-6 was buried in Westminster Abbey, the shrine of our S. Croce, major British poets and writers, including Shakespeare, Marlow, John son, James, Tennyson, Thomas, Byron, Kipling and Jane Austen.
ENDED ION
In both the first
but Dickens's house in London's Victorian-800 well, located in Camden, in Doughty S tr eet , 48, who Westminster I have been there ... I could not miss the joy and excitement to see the rooms of his elegant three-story house, the living room where he received the literary friends with his wife, his private room, its magnificent library, with his manuscripts and authentic editions of his novels . Even the laundry in the basement, he moved me in something that goes beyond mere admiration for this talented writer "ignorant." See where he lived, conceived and laid out his novels, with prints of the characters hanging on the walls, I assure you, it gives a real emotional shock. Not to mention the feeling, to say the least, devastating one feels in front of to his grave, if it is an author admired! Knowing that there behind that marble is not your favorite writer ... can be described king. Nor can one describe the feeling like to know that in a place like Westminster are concentrated all the leading exponents of British literature (there are also Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir Walter Scott), combined with the realization that there, right there, as the first two queens English Tudor sisters, Mary I, Elizabeth I and bloody, the great, the "virgin queen", a character who already know and that those who follow me, you know how much I admire the side by side.
The icing on the cake would have been there too even Henry VIII and Queen Victoria, but both are buried close to their respective spouses (King Henry is to tell the truth, close to his third wife, Jane Seymour, the mother of his only legitimate son, the future Edward VI, in Windsor and I realize that I expect too much
or, even if many will be wondering the reason for my passion for the dead as nails for so many centuries ago! do not know, do respond . It 's a passion, this, for history, English literature and music that consumes me since I was a little girl and I met the Beatles, even though they have, then, freed from nearly a decade, nor intends to go out!
Dickens, believe me, is an author to read because it is not too heavy and boring. E 'spirited and moving and will reserve in novels such as Dombey & SON and Bleak HOUSE , moments of fun to alternate with deep emotion.
Read it, my friends, without leaving frightened by the bulk of its volume, because in the end not even notice that you have read the books so long, both are nice and flowing style.
This post is for my dear friend Welsh, Alison ,
my favorite teacher of Inglese.
Love, Lena.
