Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from 25 January 1851 to 10 December 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on 20 December 1851, the second on 25 December 1852 and the third on 24 December 1853. Although the volumes were published in December, each was postdated the following year. Dickens dedicated the book to "My own dear children, whom I hope it may help, bye and bye, to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject". The history covered the period between 50 BC and 1689, ending with a chapter summarising events from then until the accession of Queen Victoria. 2] In a letter to his friend Douglas William Jerrold, Dickens confessed that he was composing the book so that he could prevent his children from embracing conservatism: I am writing a little history of England for my boy. For I don't know what I should do, if he were to get hold of any conservative or High Church notions; and the best way of guarding against any such horrible result is, I take it, to wring the parrots' neck in his very cradle.

Dans un orphelinat de l'Angleterre victorienne, Oliver Twist survit au milieu de ses compagnons d'infortune. Mal nourri, exploit , il est plac dans une entreprise de pompes fun bres o , l encore, il ne conna t que privations et mauvais traitements. Oliver endure tout, jusqu'au jour o une provocation de trop le pousse s'enfuir vers Londres. Epuis , affam , il est recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs qui travaillent pour le vieux Fagin. Entre Dodger, Bill, Nancy et les autres, Oliver d couvre un monde cruel o seules comptent la ruse et la force. Arr t pour une tentative de vol qu'il n'a pas commis sur la personne de Mr. Brownlow, Oliver ne trahit pas sa bande et s'attire la bienveillance du brave homme. Mais Fagin et Bill ne tardent pas remettre la main sur lui et l'obligent participer au cambriolage de la demeure de son bienfaiteur...

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Le narrateur du roman est David Copperfield qui, une fois adulte, nous raconte l'histoire de sa jeunesse. Jeune gar on, il m ne une existence heureuse avec sa m re et sa nourrice, Peggotty, puisque son p re est mort avant sa naissance. Au cours de sa petite enfance, sa m re se remarie avec le violent M. Murdstone, qui am ne avec lui sa soeur, la s v re Melle Murdstone, lorsqu'il emm nage. Les Murdstone traitent cruellement David, et un jour celui-ci, lors d'une dispute violente, mord la main de son beau-p re. Les Murdstone se d barrassent alors de lui en l'envoyant l' cole. L'AuteurCharles John Huffam Dickens, n Landport (en), pr s de Portsmouth, dans le Hampshire, le 7 f vrier 1812 et mort Gad's Hill Place (en) Higham (en) dans le Kent, le 9 juin 1870 ( 58 ans), est consid r comme le plus grand romancier de l' poque victorienne. D s ses premiers crits, il est devenu immens ment c l bre, sa popularit ne cessant de cro tre au fil de ses publications.