by Charles Dickens · Alba Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788411780872
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In the industrial city of Coketown, Mr. Gradgrind runs a school where life is taught as a matter of numbers, based on facts. He instills the same principles in his children, getting angry when he catches them spying on a circus, reminding them that imagination and feeling are destructive nonsense. The world of the circus serves as a contrast to the despotic and utilitarian system, personified in the banker Bounderby, who begets villains and victims.
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. He learned shorthand and worked as a parliamentary correspondent. His articles and the appearance of 'Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' made him an editorial phenomenon. He is the author of 'Oliver Twist', 'Pictures from Italy', 'Dombey and Son', 'David Copperfield', 'Bleak House', 'Little Dorrit', 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Great Expectations', among others. He died in London in 1870.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
