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Nicholas Nickleby: Classics Illustrated

Autor Charles Dickens Ilustrat de Colin Mayne, Gustav Schrotter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2011

Pășind în universul lui Nicholas Nickleby, cititorul este întâmpinat de o atmosferă vibrantă, unde umorul exuberant se împletește subtil cu o melancolie profundă. Notăm cu interes cum Charles Dickens reușește să creeze un tablou al Londrei victoriene în care opulența și sărăcia lucie coexistă într-un echilibru fragil. Imaginați-vă tensiunea socială și fragilitatea personajelor din David Copperfield, mutată într-un decor de școală internat din Yorkshire, unde disciplina ascunde, de fapt, o cruzime sistemică. Găsim în această operă o tranziție fascinantă: deși păstrează structura episodică și spiritul ludic din „The Pickwick Papers”, romanul anunță deja profunzimea tematică din Oliver Twist. Putem afirma că forța cărții rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a transforma satira socială într-o pledoarie emoțioantă pentru demnitate. Nicholas, un tânăr forțat de moartea tatălui său să caute protecția unui unchi nemilos, Ralph Nickleby, devine ochii noștri într-o lume a contrastelor. De la sălile de clasă sinistre ale lui Wackford Squeers la teatrele ambulante și străzile aglomerate ale metropolei, narațiunea pulsează de viață prin personaje memorabile precum tragicul Smike sau excentricul Newman Noggs. Spre deosebire de tonul sumbru din A Tale of Two Cities, aici Dickens folosește ironia ca pe o armă împotriva nedreptății, oferindu-ne un roman care, deși ancorat în realitățile secolului al XIX-lea, rămâne universal prin critica adusă lăcomiei și lipsei de empatie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781906814588
ISBN-10: 1906814589
Pagini: 48
Ilustrații: Fully Illustrated
Dimensiuni: 171 x 242 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Ediția:UK First Ed
Editura: CLASSIC COMIC STORE LTD
Colecția Classics Illustrated
Seria Classics Illustrated


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lectură celor care doresc să descopere echilibrul perfect între satira tăioasă și umanismul cald al lui Dickens. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra reformelor educaționale victoriene, totul ambalat într-o aventură picarescă memorabilă. Este alegerea ideală pentru cititorii care apreciază personajele complexe și poveștile despre triumful integrității în fața corupției, oferind o experiență literară mai luminoasă decât marile tragedii dickensiene.


Despre autor

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) a fost cel mai influent romancier al epocii victoriene și un critic social acerb. Marcat de experiența muncii într-o fabrică de cremă de ghete în copilărie, în timp ce tatăl său era închis pentru datorii, Dickens a devenit vocea celor defavorizați. Cariera sa literară a explodat odată cu „The Pickwick Papers”, impunându-l ca un maestru al caracterizării și al satirei. De-a lungul vieții, a scris 15 romane și numeroase povestiri, fiind un pionier al publicării în foileton. Opera sa, care include titluri fundamentale precum Great Expectations, rămâne un reper al literaturii universale prin observația fină a societății și campaniile sale pentru drepturile copiilor.


Descriere scurtă

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a schoolteacher in a boys' school in Yorkshire to support his family. There he sees injustices and cruelty and stands up to the schoolmasters to right these wrongs. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story.

The Classics Illustrated comic book series began in 1941 with its first issue, Alexandre Dumas "The Three Musketeers," and has since included over 200 classic tales released around the world. This edition is specifically tailored to engage and educate young readers with some of the greatest works ever written, while still thrilling older readers who have loving memories of this series of old."

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Charles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas Nickleby, with its episodes of chicanery in finance and education, and the dramatic intensity with which it tells the story of its open-hearted protagonists - a young brother and sister at sea in a dangerous world - and its frightening villain, the magnificently rendered Ralph Nickleby, represents Dickens at his clear-eyed, indignant and mesmerizing best.

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Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Recenzii

"The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jow."
--Jasper Rees, The Times

"Nicholas Nickleby was a revelation. Here was a school -- Dotheboy's Hall, with its grotesque headmaster, Wackford Squeers -- which was even worse than the prison camp to which my poor innocent parents had confined me! The story of Dotheboy's Hall seemed horribly familiar -- the beatings, the bad food. But here was something to which even a child could respond, As well as being sympathetic to the plight of the children, the author was hilarious."
--A.N. Wilson
"The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jow" -- Jasper Rees The Times "Nicholas Nickleby was a revelation. Here was a school - Dotheboy's Hall, with its grotesque headmaster, Wackford Squeers - which was even worse than the prison camp to which my poor innocent parents had confined me! The story of Dotheboy's Hall seemed horribly familiar - the beatings, the bad food. But here was something to which even a child could respond. As well as being sympathetic to the plight of the children, the author was hilarious" -- A.N Wilson "Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer - or any combination of these" -- Susannah Clarke

Notă biografică

English author and social commentator Charles Dickens lived from 7 February 1812 to 9 June 1870. He is credited with creating some of the most well-known fictional characters in history and is regarded by many as the best writer of the Victorian era. His books gained an extraordinary level of popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, academics and critics had recognized his literary excellence. Many people read his novels and short story collections today. Dickens, a native of Portsmouth, quit school at the age of 12 to work at a factory that blackened boots while his father was imprisoned for debt. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his writing career as a journalist. Dickens spent 20 years editing a weekly journal, produced hundreds of short stories and non-fiction pieces, 15 novels, five novellas, numerous lectures, and readings, was a prolific letter writer, and actively promoted social reforms like education reform, children's rights, and other issues. Dickens' writing career took off with the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836, a publishing hit that inspired Pickwick products and spin-offs in large part due to the introduction of the character Sam Weller in the fourth episode.