American Notes [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Dickens, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140436499 ISBN 13: 9780140436495

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2001

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American Notes, 9780140436495

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Informazioni sull?autore

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne's College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. she is the General Editor of all Hardy's fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell's North and South for the series.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140436499
• ISBN 13: 9780140436495
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Redattore: Ingham Patricia
• Contatto del produttore: Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk; ; Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street; Dublin; Irlanda