Charles Dickens
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, 'Pictures from Italy.'
In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his - and his readers' - eyes. Italy's most famous sights are all to be found here
...“Manuscrito de un loco” fue escrito en 1836 y pertenece a la colección “El guardavías y otras historias de Fantasmas”.
Aquí el loco escribe parte de su biografía, centrada en el proceso que sufre hasta enloquecer lo que permite una serie de reflexiones sobre la condición de un loco en la vida social y los sucesos que ocurren a su alrededor.
La novela narra la historia del huérfano Pip, quien describe su vida desde su niñez hasta su madurez tratando de convertirse en un hombre de nobleza a lo largo de su vida. Se puede decir que se trata de un Bildungsroman. La historia puede también ser considerada como una semi-autobiografía de Dickens, al igual que muchas de sus obras, en la cual mezcla sus experiencias de vidas con su entorno social.
La trama de la historia toma lugar
68) Nobody's Story
69) Sketches by Boz
MARLEY'S GHOST
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.
...The last major story that Dickens completed before his death, "George Silverman's Explanation" is something of a departure for the famed master of Victorian fiction. One of the rare tales Dickens wrote in the first person, the story is a narrative account of one man's horrific start in life, the ripples of which seem to fan out and negatively impact everything else that happens to him.
The most unique aspect of Charles Dickens' skill as a writer — and the characteristic that propelled him to unprecedented heights of literary fame — was his ability to immerse readers in the quotidian details of his characters' lives, loves, and struggles. That strength shines through in this vast collection of short pieces culled from Dickens' tenure as a newspaper columnist.