L'Ami commun 2

by Charles Dickens

Overview

L'Ami commun (titre original : Our Mutual Friend), quatorzième et dernier roman achevé de Charles Dickens, a été publié en 1865. Situé dans le présent, il offre une description panoramique de la société anglaise. Charles Dickens s'emploie à dénoncer la superficialité d'une société fissurée en divisions de classes, corrompue par l'avidité du gain, l'incompétence du pouvoir, le gaspillage de la vie urbaine vouée au matérialisme et les relations prédatrices qu'entretiennent entre eux les êtres humains. Ainsi, il associe une satire mordante à un réalisme noir, un fond traditionnel de fantastique et de contes de fée à une mise en garde contre les périls montants et, comme toujours, propose en antidote les valeurs morales qu'assurent la bonne volonté et un altruisme bien orienté.Considérant en effet qu'une voix unifiée ne saurait à elle seule représenter la fragmentation de la société moderne et rendre compte de l'instabilité du monde qu'elle génère, l'auteur donne donc à son narrateur, pourtant moins présent que dans beaucoup de ses romans, une amplitude de tons encore jamais atteinte, tour à tour ironique et désinvolte, sérieux et comique, solennel et léger. |Source Wikipédia|

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791022751988
Publisher:	Bookelis
Publication date:	12/26/2017
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
File size:	531 KB
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In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in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