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Charles Dickensi presentatsioon
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Charles Dickensi presentatsioon

1833 was able to get his first story ,,A Dinner at Poplar Walk", published in the London periodical, Monthly Magazine. In 1834 Charles Dickens adopted pseudonym ,,Boz" John Dickens >>the original of Mr. Micawber(,,David Copperfield") Elizabeth Dickens>>the original Mrs. Nickleby (,,Nicholas Nickelby") In 1835 he met and became engaged to Catherine Hogarth. Mary Hogarth In 1836 ,,the Scetches of Boz" were published John Forster- his closest friend and first biographer In 1836-37 ,,The Pickwick Papers" was published In 1842 Dickens made his first trip to America In 1844-45 he lived in Italy, Switzerland and Paris. From 1841 to 1860, Charles wrote famous novels as: "David Copperfield", "Bleak House" and "A Tale of Two Cities", "Great Expectations" lecturing tours in Britain and the United States in 1858-68 In 1868-1869 Dickens arranged public ,,Farewell readings", where he presented his novels +12 last readings in 1870

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

boxer, and swordsman (among other talents), first appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet in the Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of "deductive reasoning" while using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. John Watson is a fictional character, the friend, confidant and biographer of Sherlock Holmes. In the stories, Watson shared lodgings with Holmes in large parts of the last two decades of the 1800s and soon emerged as the assistant and biographer of the great detective. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. The 12 stories in this collection are: "A Scandal in Bohemia" "The Red-Headed League" "A Case of Identity"

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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo

He was born in 6 March, 1475 in Caprese, the son of the local magistrate, his family returned to Florence soon after his birth. During his life he lived in city's like Florence, Venice and Bologna in Tuscany, nowadays Italy. Later, during the prolonged illness and after the death of his mother, he lived as a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm. Michelangelo once said to the biographer of artists Giorgio Vasari, "What little good I have within me came from the pure air of your native Arezzo and the chisels and hammers." Michelangelo's desire to become an artist was initially opposed by his father. After a period of grammatics studies with the humanist Francesco da Urbino, Michelangelo continued his apprenticeship in painting with Domenico Ghirlandaio and in sculpture with Bertoldo di Giovanni.

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Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe

3.1 James Dougherty 3.2 Joe DiMaggio 3.3 Arthur Miller 4 The Kennedys 5 Death and aftermath 5.1 Administration of estate 6 Trivia 6.1 Pornographic film claims 7 Quotes 7.1 Quotes about Monroe 8 Filmography 9 Awards and nominations 10 Art (selection) 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External links Childhood Family and early life Main article: Childhood of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was born in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital.[1][10] According to biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles, her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, had her baptized Norma Jeane Baker by Aimee Semple McPherson.[1] Although she took a stagename of Marilyn Monroe in 1946, she did not legally change her name until February 23, 1956.[11] Her mother was Gladys Pearl (Monroe) Baker.[12] Her family is believed to have been Anglo-Spanish originally; and possibly related to the Sepulvedas. [13] For many years it was believed Gladys' second husband Martin

Ajalugu → Ajalugu
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Briti kirjanduse portfoolio
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Briti kirjanduse portfoolio

During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily and Anne published a joint collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. In June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate, and became pregnant very soon thereafter. Her health declined rapidly during this time, and according to Gaskell, her earliest biographer, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." Charlotte and her unborn child died March 31, 1855. Jane Eyre, published 1847 Shirley, published 1849 Villette, published 1853 The Professor, written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, was published posthumously in 1857. Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist

Kirjandus → Inglise kirjandus
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Philip Larkin’s Poetry-Themes-Form-Style-Imagery and Symbolism
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Philip Larkin’s Poetry: Themes, Form, Style, Imagery and Symbolism

It offers four readings of Larkin’s “Deceptions” by four fictitious characters in the same university department: a formalist, a Marxist, a feminist and a post-structuralist critic. Holderness’s parodistic readings have a central position in the volume for precisely the same reason as Larkin’s “Posterity” does in High Windows. In the first place, the poem entitles the reader to see Larkin through the eyes of Jake Balokowsky, his fictitious biographer, but Larkin also ridicules this young cosmopolitan scholar. Holderness’s Cleanth, Raymond, Kate, and Colin are both serious and ludicrous. Holderness has created four possible scholars, and he does not say that any of them are wrong. He laughs at them, but does not reject their readings. In a Larkinesque manner, he wears the masks of four critics to demonstrate the diversity of Larkin criticism. In an earlier monograph (Philip Larkin, 1992), Regan outlines the main trends of

Varia → Kategoriseerimata
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English literature summary
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English literature summary

  They   searched   for   definitions   of   the   good,   the   true,   and   the   beautiful   and   questioned   accepted   ideas.   Challenged  strict  Victorian  norms  by  practicing  sexual  freedom  and  bisexual  relations.       The   Bloomsbury   group   included   the   novelist   E.M.   Forster,   the   biographer   Lytton   Strachey,   the   art   critic   Clive   Bell,   the   painters   Vanessa   Bell   and   Duncan   Grant,   the   economist  John  Maynard  Keynes,  the  writer  Leonard  Woolf,  and  the  novelist  and  critic   Virginia   Woolf.   Bertrand   Russell,   Aldous   Huxley,   and   T.S.   Eliot   were   sometimes  

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Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani
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Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.

commentary on the present day political life in America. It is a chronical that describes a large part of American history. The setting is mostly New england, DC, New York. Most characters are real historical figures. Aaron Burr, who was vice president of the USA, under Thomas Jefferson. It was Burr who killed Alexander Hamilton on a duel in 1804. Hamilton was one of Washingtons assistants. Charles Schyler-Burr's biographer, law student, journalist. Washington is mentioned and Washington Irving, advises Schyler. Novel begins in the middle of the action 1833-announcing the marriage of Burr, who was then 77, to woman of 58. The narrator is very ironical. We learn that the author of this piece of news is Charles Schyler, he is the narrator of the novel, he is studying law under Burr. His narrative is to solve some of the confusion surrounding Burrs contraversial career. But as the novel progresses we have more

Kirjandus → Ameerika kirjandus
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TheCodeBreakers
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TheCodeBreakers

.. no doubt much of the cloud which hangs over the congressional intrigues of that critical period would be removed," mourned Francis Wharton in 1889 in The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States. But other scholars looked upon the cryptograms as a challenge. One of the first of these was a transplanted German whose services to English historiography were of high importance. Gustave Adolph Bergenroth was born February 26, 1813, at Marggrabowa, which his biographer called "an insignificant town in the remotest and dreariest corner of East Prussia." He attended the University of Konigsberg, where he was very popular with his fellow students and where he sustained a severe injury to his right wrist in duelling. After working in Cologne and Berlin as an assessor, with time out for a trip to Italy necessitated by his liberal views, he quit his job and sailed in 1850 for California as a pioneer. The racy style of his first

Informaatika → krüptograafia
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