Bookbot

Paul Schlicke

    Paul Schlicke es un renombrado erudito de Dickens a nivel internacional. Su obra profundiza en la vida y los escritos de uno de los novelistas más grandes de Gran Bretaña, basándose en una diversidad de información sin igual. Schlicke arroja una luz nueva y a menudo inesperada sobre las obras más conocidas de Dickens, explorando las experiencias, los eventos y la literatura que lo moldearon. Este enfoque ofrece a los lectores una comprensión más profunda del maestro narrador.

    Oxford World's Classics: Nicholas Nickleby
    Hard Times
    • Oxford World's Classics: Nicholas Nickleby

      • 918 páginas
      • 33 horas de lectura

      Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more.

      Oxford World's Classics: Nicholas Nickleby1998
    • Hard Times

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      In the person of Gradgrind and Bounderby he stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of Utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers

      Hard Times1998
      3,5