The first genuine mystery novel written by Dickens was never finished and was published posthumously in 1870 leaving the mystery unsolved forever. The choirmaster of Cloisterham, Jack Jasper, has a ward named Edwin Drood, a respectable young man...
The dehumanizing effects of heavy industrialization are given form and bitter indictment in this Dickens novel. Raised by a hard, pragmatic father concerned only with sterile principles, Tom and Louisa Gradgrind grow up with little imagination,...
Le 25 mars 1851, un charmant aviso gréé en goélette quittait New-York, vers cinq heures de l'après-midi, et, poussé par une brise favorable, prenait la mer, toutes voiles dehors.
C'était l'Atalante, un des plus fins,...