La petite Dorrit T2

by Charles Dickens

Overview

Les efforts d’Arthur Clennam ont payé : la famille Dorrit, libérée de la prison pour dettes où elle croupissait abusivement, connaît enfin la prospérité.
Mais, après des années de misère, la petite Dorrit fait de nouveau face à un coup du sort : son père décède, et la voici contrainte de vivre chez sa sœur aînée, mariée au très snob Edmund Sparkler.
Suite à un investissement malheureux de ce dernier, la famille Dorrit connaît de nouveau la ruine… et, cette fois, Arthur Clennam partage la déchéance de sa fiancée. Les voici tous deux enfermés pour dettes à la prison de Marshalsea !
Les épais murs de la prison ne sont pas toujours là où l’on croit, et son ombre menaçante semble s’étendre bien au-delà de ses enceintes… Mais une terrible vérité est sur le point d’éclater, qui pourrait tout remettre en question. La petite Dorrit goûtera-t-elle enfin à la quiétude et au bonheur ?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782352877820
Publisher:	Archipoche
Publication date:	05/13/2015
Series:	La petite Dorrit , #2
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB
Language:	French

About the Author

Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age.

In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals.

It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. His early novels Oliver Twist (1837-1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and A Christmas Carol (1843) solidified his enormous, ongoing popularity. As Dickens matured, his social criticism became increasingly biting, his humor dark, and his view of poverty darker still. David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) are the great works of his masterful and prolific period.

In 1858 Dickens's twenty-three-year marriage to Catherine Hogarth dissolved when he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. The last years of his life were filled with intense activity: writing, managing amateur theatricals, and undertaking several reading tours that reinforced the public's favorable view of his work but took an enormous toll on his health. Working feverishly to the last, Dickens collapsed and died on June 8, 1870, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood uncompleted.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of David Copperfield.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington