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Chi cerca i libri di Charles Dickens scopre un panorama letterario unico che ritrae con crudo realismo la società vittoriana. Seguire i libri in ordine cronologico di Charles Dickens permette al lettore di osservare l'evoluzione sociale dell'Inghilterra dell'Ottocento, permettendo di comprendere appieno le critiche rivolte alle istituzioni dell'epoca attraverso trame avvincenti e personaggi immortali.
Biografia dell'autore
Charles Dickens nasce a Portsmouth nel 1812. Trascorre un'infanzia segnata dalle difficoltà economiche della famiglia, esperienza che influenza profondamente la sua visione del mondo e la sua sensibilità verso le classi disagiate. Dopo aver lavorato come cronista parlamentare e reporter, si afferma come autore di grande successo grazie al suo talento nel descrivere le contraddizioni del sistema industriale. Il suo impegno sociale e la capacità di analizzare le disparità lo rendono una figura centrale della letteratura inglese. Muore nel 1870, lasciando un'eredità letteraria che continua a essere studiata in tutto il mondo.
Stile di scrittura
I libri di Charles Dickens sono caratterizzati da uno stile ricco, ironico e profondamente descrittivo, capace di restituire atmosfere vivide. L'autore è celebre per aver creato icone come il piccolo Oliver Twist, simbolo della lotta contro la povertà, e l'avaro Ebenezer Scrooge, protagonista del celebre Canto di Natale. Le sue opere, come la complessa saga familiare di David Copperfield o l'intreccio drammatico di Grandi Speranze, hanno lasciato un segno indelebile nei lettori per la capacità di mescolare umorismo e denuncia sociale, dando voce agli emarginati con uno sguardo sempre attento e partecipe.
THE LITTLE DOLL'S DRESSMAKER - A Children's Story by Charles Dickens. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Charles Dickens - Abela Publishing, 2018 -
Jenny Wren, The Doll’s Dressmaker, is a welcome contrast to stereotypes of disabled individuals as "permanent children" always in need of protection, "defined by their perceived dependence on the nondisabled" (Klages 2). Far from slinking through life as an object of pity, Jenny proclaims herself "the person of the house" (235, II, 2). It is a frequent complaint that Dickens's ideal heroine is the angel of the house and that his "stereotypical presentations of angels, fallen sisters, and eccentric women regrettably leave today's readers in search of a viable heroine". While several Dickens’ characters fit binary stereotypes of the disabled as pitiful and helpless, sometimes even monstrous and villainous, Jenny Wren, the dolls' dressmaker, creates a unique and constructive life with regards to her infirmities. She has successfully adaptated her life and in several respects she reverses and challenges and limits usually imposed on disabled women in Victorian fiction. To this end Jenny has built a successful business making dolls clothes for the wealthier members of society. The little dressmaker is so strong and courageous that she physically assaults a vile businessman, Fascination Fledgeby, who has hounded Jenny's friends and ruined many other lives through his extortionate lending practices. Jenny's weapon of choice is pepper, the Victorian girl's counterpart of mace. In a complete reversal of the usual paradigm, the able-bodied man finds himself writhing helplessly, temporarily disabled, humiliated and in pain (704-06, IV, 8). Jenny Wren anticipates today's view that the disabled and the able-bodied can work together in interdependent relationships, subverting the expectation that the disabled are inevitably dependent. While typically the disabled woman in the Victorian novel is denied a reproductive future, Jenny is an exception. Dickens was ahead of his time in providing a suitor for Jenny, and envisioning that a disabled woman can be beautiful. With thanks to Sara D. Schotland of Georgetown University and the Disability Studies Quarterly for publishing this summary of Jenny Wren in “The Doll’s Dressmaker.” 10% of the publisher’s profit will be donated to Charities. ------- KEYWORDS/TAGS: YA, Young Adult, story, Victorian, young person, young people, alone, back, bad, beautiful, bench, best, chair, Charles, child, children, children’s story, chin, city, clothes, creature, cry, crutch, dark, dead, Dickens, disabled, disability, , doll, dressmaker, fairy Godmother, Fledgeby, flowers, Jenny Wren, Lizzie, Lizzie-Mizzie-Wizzie, London, looking, master, miss, money, old, person, pin cushion, pleasant, poor, pretty, queer, quick, Riah, roof, sharp, shook, shop, Sloppy, small, smell, strange, tea, throw, toy, turn, Victorian, voice, Well, white, window, working, yellow, young
Five Short Christmas Stories: Short Christmas Stories from the Pen of Charles Dickens. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Charles Dickens - Abela Publishing, 2018 -
Herein are five short Christmas stories written by that master of English literature, Charles Dickens. The stories in this volume are: A CHRISTMAS TREE WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER THE POOR RELATION’S STORY THE CHILD’S STORY THE SCHOOLBOY’S STORY NOBODY’S STORY So, get yourself a hot Christmas toddy, find a comfy high-backed chair, sit back and enjoy these five, relatively unknown, Christmas stories from Charles Dickens. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity. =========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Five short Christmas stories, Charles Dickens, , account, air, bear, beautiful, bed, beef, beginning, Bigwig, black, breakfast, bright, business, carriage, Castle, cheerful, Cheeseman, children, Christiana, Christmas, dark, dead, desk, died, earth, eyes, fall, Fanny, fire, Frank, gentleman, great, happy, heart, Heaven, holidays, Jane, John, journey, kind, Lady, Little, live, looking, lost, love, marry, Master, Michael, Old, particular, play, poor, President, pretty, respect, Reverend, shadow, Society, Spatter, sun, tears, traveller, Tree, true, uncle, understand, voice, windows, woman, wood, word, world, worth, young, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is As We Grow Older, The Poor Relation’s Story, The Child’s Story, The Schoolboy’s Story, Nobody’s Story