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The Life of Charles Dickens

di John Forster · 72 parti · about 30 hours 13 minutes di lettura

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Nessuno conosceva Dickens meglio di John Forster. Si incontrarono da giovani, e per più di trent'anni Dickens gli disse tutto, gli mostrò ogni piano, e gli affidò i segreti, compresa l'infanzia nella fabbrica di lucido da scarpe che nascose al mondo. Dopo la morte di Dickens nel 1870, Forster scrisse questa grande biografia dalle lettere e dalla propria memoria. È lunga, affettuosa e insostituibile.

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Capitoli

Dedication1 min Note to the Present Edition1 min Volume II: Corrections Made in the Later Editions of the First Volume7 min Volume I, Chapter 1 (1812-1822): Childhood35 min Volume I, Chapter 2 (1822-1824): Hard Experiences in Boyhood35 min Volume I, Chapter 3 (1824-1830): School-Days and Start in Life30 min Volume I, Chapter 4 (1831-1835): Reporters' Gallery and Newspaper Literature15 min Volume I, Chapter 5 (1836): First Book, and Origin of Pickwick11 min Volume I, Chapter 6 (1837): Writing the Pickwick Papers34 min Volume I, Chapter 7 (1837-1838): Between Pickwick and Nickleby14 min Volume I, Chapter 8 (1838): Oliver Twist16 min Volume I, Chapter 9 (1838-1839): Nicholas Nickleby19 min Volume I, Chapter 10 (1838-1839): During and After Nickleby13 min Volume I, Chapter 11 (1839): New Literary Project12 min Volume I, Chapter 12 (1840-1841): The Old Curiosity Shop23 min Volume I, Chapter 13 (1840): Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs19 min Volume I, Chapter 14 (1841): Barnaby Rudge21 min Volume I, Chapter 15 (1841): Public Dinner in Edinburgh18 min Volume I, Chapter 16 (1841): Adventures in the Highlands20 min Volume I, Chapter 17 (1841): Again at Broadstairs10 min Volume I, Chapter 18 (1841): Eve of the Visit to America11 min Volume I, Chapter 19 (1842): First Impressions of America25 min Volume I, Chapter 20 (1842): Second Impressions of America35 min Volume I, Chapter 21 (1842): Philadelphia, Washington, and the South31 min Volume I, Chapter 22 (1842): Canal-Boat Journeys: Bound Far West32 min Volume I, Chapter 23 (1842): The Far West: to Niagara Falls35 min Volume I, Chapter 24 (1842): Niagara and Montreal14 min Volume II, Chapter 1 (1842): American Notes25 min Volume II, Chapter 2 (1843): First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit29 min Volume II, Chapter 3 (1843-1844): Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol41 min Volume II, Chapter 4 (1844): Year of Departure for Italy22 min Volume II, Chapter 5 (1844): Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello35 min Volume II, Chapter 6 (1844): Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere35 min Volume II, Chapter 7 (1844): Italian Travel20 min Volume II, Chapter 8 (1845): Last Months in Italy24 min Volume II, Chapter 9 (1845-1846): Again in England. 1845-184629 min Volume II, Chapter 10 (1846): A Home in Switzerland27 min Volume II, Chapter 11 (1846): Swiss People and Scenery23 min Volume II, Chapter 12 (1846): Sketches Chiefly Personal21 min Volume II, Chapter 13 (1846): Literary Labour at Lausanne26 min Volume II, Chapter 14 (1846): Revolution at Geneva, Christmas Book, and Last Days in Switzerland31 min Volume II, Chapter 15 (1846-1847): Three Months in Paris26 min Volume II, Chapter 16 (1846-1848): Dombey and Son37 min Volume II, Chapter 17 (1847-1852): Splendid Strolling44 min Volume II, Chapter 18 (1848-1851): Seaside Holidays (Part 1)28 min Volume II, Chapter 18 (1848-1851): Seaside Holidays (Part 2)26 min Volume II, Chapter 19 (1848-1850): Haunted Man and Household Words19 min Volume II, Chapter 20 (1848-1851): Last Years in Devonshire Terrace (Part 1)28 min Volume II, Chapter 20 (1848-1851): Last Years in Devonshire Terrace (Part 2)24 min Volume III, Chapter 1 (1850-1853): David Copperfield and Bleak House39 min Volume III, Chapter 2 (1853-1855): Home Incidents and Hard Times26 min Volume III, Chapter 3 (1853): Switzerland and Italy Revisited28 min Volume III, Chapter 4 (1853, 1854, and 1856): Three Summers at Boulogne31 min Volume III, Chapter 5 (1855, 1856): Residence in Paris41 min Volume III, Chapter 6 (1855-1857): Little Dorrit, and a Lazy Tour26 min Volume III, Chapter 7 (1857-1858): What Happened at This Time33 min Volume III, Chapter 8 (1856-1870): Gadshill Place21 min Volume III, Chapter 9 (1858-1859): First Paid Readings18 min Volume III, Chapter 10 (1859-1861): All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller20 min Volume III, Chapter 11 (1861-1863): Second Series of Readings24 min Volume III, Chapter 12 (1855-1865): Hints for Books Written and Unwritten26 min Volume III, Chapter 13 (1864-1867): Third Series of Readings33 min Volume III, Chapter 14 (1836-1870): Dickens as a Novelist (Part 1)44 min Volume III, Chapter 14 (1836-1870): Dickens as a Novelist (Part 2)37 min Volume III, Chapter 15 (1867): America Revisited: November and December 186727 min Volume III, Chapter 16 (1868): America Revisited: January to April 1868 (Part 1)28 min Volume III, Chapter 16 (1868): America Revisited: January to April 1868 (Part 2)25 min Volume III, Chapter 17 (1868-1870): Last Readings22 min Volume III, Chapter 18 (1869-1870): Last Book17 min Volume III, Chapter 19 (1836-1870): Personal Characteristics (Part 1)33 min Volume III, Chapter 19 (1836-1870): Personal Characteristics (Part 2)32 min Volume III, Chapter 20 (1869-1870): The End24 min