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Há 4 dias · These themes were translated into her first complete novel, Adam Bede (1859). It was an instant success and this led to her public acknowledgment of her pseudonym George Eliot.
Há 1 dia · According to Paul Davis, while more realistic than its autobiographical predecessor written when novels like George Eliot's Adam Bede were in vogue, Great Expectations is in many ways a poetic work built around recurring symbolic images: the desolation of the marshes; the twilight; the chains of the house, the past, the painful memory; the fire; the hands that manipulate and control; the ...
- Charles Dickens
- 544 (first edition 1861)
- 1860
- Novel, Bildungsroman
Há 3 dias · Bede ( / biːd /; Old English: Bēda [ˈbeːdɑ]; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( Latin: Beda Venerabilis ), was an English monk and an author and scholar. He was one of the greatest teachers and writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History ...
- Durham Cathedral, England
Há 1 dia · When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the day, covered with mud and mire, and I put on my regal and courtly garments; and decently reclothed, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where, received by them lovingly, I feed on the food that alone is mine and that I was born for.
Há 1 dia · But the classics that these era produced are still worth reading such as The Maltese Falcon is a detective novel filled with lots of murder and blood. One of my favorite elements of a hardboiled fiction novel is the constant plot twists as if you are in a maze. There is never a dull moment and Dashiell Hammett’s novel delivers on all fronts.
Há 9 horas · Abstract. This chapter gives Dante’s literary biography, as had Dorothy Sayers with the Inferno, in these three parts. Its Leopard section discusses his youthful writings, which include perhaps the Mare amoroso, his lyric poetry of sung canzoni, beginning, he tells us, with “ A ciascun’alma presa, e gentil core” at eighteen, and the ...
Há 4 dias · The story follows bestselling crime thriller novelist Alan Wake as he tries to uncover the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small fictional town of Bright Falls, Washington, all while experiencing events from the plot of his latest novel, which he cannot remember writing, coming to life.
