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Reading in your free time is perhaps one of the healthiest hobbies out there. And reading while sitting comfortably on the sofa at home is definitely even better. With new technologies, leafing through a digital book, if it can make purists turn up their noses, is a pleasure that can offer many satisfactions.
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is the title of the second novel by the English writer Charles Dickens, a work in which the author deals with social issues such as poverty, the exploitation of child labor and crime. Published in 1837 and set in London, Oliver Twist tells the story of the homonymous orphan boy who, at the age of nine, escapes from the institute where he grew up and joins a gang of young criminals. The work inaugurates the trend of the English social novel and, through Oliver Twist, Dickens recounts the exploitation of child labor and social injustice. Oliver Twist grows up in an orphanage and starts working in a factory when he is only 9 years old, he earns a reputation as an agitator for asking for an extra ration of food. From this moment Oliver is removed from the factory and starts working for a gravedigger but has no easy life and decides to move to London. The work inaugurates the trend of the English social novel and, through Oliver Twist, Dickens tells the exploitation of child labor and social injustice. Oliver Twist grows up in an orphanage and starts working in a factory when he is only 9 years old, he earns a reputation as an agitator for asking for an extra ration of food. From this moment Oliver is removed from the factory and starts working for a gravedigger but he does not have an easy life and decides to move to London. Oliver Twist decides to move to London, and here he meets a group of thieves led by the violent Fagin and Bill. Oliver realizes he is in trouble when he is arrested for a theft of a member of society, Mr. Brownlow. However, Oliver is innocent and, once cleared, is welcomed into Mr. Brownlow’s home. But Fagin and Bill kidnap Oliver with the help of the prostitute Nancy. Once back in the Fagin group, he forces Oliver Twist to rob the home of wealthy Mrs. Maylie. During the theft Oliver is injured and Mrs. Maylie, moved by the story of the boy’s misadventures, decides to cure him. Fagin does not give up and contacts the thug Monks to kidnap him. Monks, however, discovers that he is his half-brother and Mrs. Maylie’s nephew and that he will therefore inherit a large fortune. Nancy uncovers the two’s criminal plot and alerts Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Maylie. For this Nancy will be killed but Mr. Brownlow captures Fagin, thus putting an end to his criminal plan. Oliver discovers that he is Mrs. Maylie’s grandson and can therefore inherit her fortune. Oliver Twist is also adopted by Mr. Brownlow and begin his life as a bourgeois.
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A Modest Proposal
A modest proposal (1729), the most famous satire in the English language, was composed by Jonathan Swift at the age of sixty-two but with the same provocative and politically incorrect spirit of his early writings. This time to shake the “furious indignation” of the most uncomfortable satirist of the eighteenth century are the intolerable conditions of misery in which Ireland finds itself due to the colonialist exploitation of the English rulers. With the impassive language of the theorists of utilitarianism, the anonymous author of the pamphlet proposes the most economically advantageous solution to capitalize on the prolificacy of the Irish: to sell their fattest children who, cooked in various ways, will provide exquisite dishes to the rich. Overpopulation and unemployment will also be combated, while the poorest will save, also contributing to the economic well-being of the entire nation. The countrymen understood perfectly well that the brutal sarcasm was not directed at the derelicts and beggars who lined the streets of Dublin, but at the British politicians and their ruthless logic of profit, and they hailed Swift as a patriot. Combined with the great desecrating tradition of Rabelais and Voltaire, this classic of satirical literature sets up a disconcerting and paradoxical parody of the inequity of social discrimination and the enslavement of ethics to the economic system. A very current, lucid and terrible text of political literature, of which we present a new Italian edition translated and annotated with impeccable and passionate care
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
From April to November 1859, Charles Dickens wrote “A Tale of Two Cities” in weekly episodes. This method of writing a novel was brilliant. Thus keeping his readers waiting for the next episode and with bated breath, he manages to make a lot of money. Also, all levels of the people of those times could read them. At that time most books were only in the possession of wealthy people, and as newspapers ran from hand to hand, now this new method meant that everyone could afford them. This is why the number of Dickens’ readers is growing more and more.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland: “Whoever is small wants to become great immediately, but most of all he wants his wishes to be fulfilled. The same goes for Alice: she presents herself as a child who lives in the moment without thinking about the consequences of her actions. She drinks and she is small, she eats and becomes big, very big, so that she can meet the characters of the world she entered …
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Frankenstein
The fame and influence of the “Frankenstein”; or, the “Modern Prometheus” by Mary W. Shelley have been enormous in the history of literature and perhaps there is no other work of the Gothic tradition that has penetrated more deeply into the collective imagination. Neither a gothic novel, nor a ghost story, nor a science-fiction tale, Frankenstein is a real “count philosophique” dressed in all the gothic paraphernalia dear to the taste of the public to whom Shelley was addressing. With a simple plot, complicated however by sophisticated narrative devices, according to the system of Chinese boxes, the novel tells the story of the creature built by the scientist Victor Frankenstein, a convinced advocate of galvanism, assembling pieces of corpse collected in tombs and slaughterhouses. The monster is not the dull and brutal creature that the cinematographic tradition from Karloff onwards has represented us, but a sensitive being who suffers from the final condemnation that the whole of humanity, influenced solely by his appearance.
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Pride and Prejudice
Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is Austen’s most popular work, the most perfect for balance of narrative structure and style polish,” writes one of the best author in the introduction. “Around the character of Elizabeth, beautiful without being beautiful, intelligent and firm without being tough, England before the industrial revolution emerges in its truth, with the green of its woods, with the mud of its autumn seasons, with the red of its military uniforms
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Published in a magazine between July 1891 and June 1892, the twelve texts that make up this collection include the most famous cases of the immortal investigator. Despite Dr. Watson’s marriage to the handsome Mary of The Sign of Four, the two former roommates continue to welcome clients in the apartment at 221B Baker Street. From the young king blackmailed by his lover in A Scandal in Bohemia – which introduces the only woman who has ever struck Holmes’ imaginary, Irene Adler – to the ruddy merchant who can’t figure out the Red Hair League, passing through the young woman whose boyfriend has disappeared from the carriage that was taking him to the wedding in A case of identity, characters and mysteries crowd the pages of this volume. Closed rooms, moving carriages, orange seeds arrived by post and wedding banquets are just some of the situations that the most famous duo in literature will find themselves investigating. With their mysteries set to perfection even in the space of a few pages, these tales are perhaps the most interesting example of Conan Doyle’s creativity and narrative mastery. An ideal reading for those who have yet to discover the great master of mystery and for those who already know the most famous cases of him, completed by a writing by Joseph Bell, the doctor who inspired Conan Doyle’s best known and most successful of his characters.
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It is incredible that an electronic device of 200 or 300 grams can contain an entire library of thousands of volumes. And then using an eReader is like reading through the pages of a paper book or at least it offers the same sensation, even in many devices there is also the noise of the page turned. Browsing the internet, there are many websites that deal in whole or in part with the distribution of free or paid e-books.
As we all know, the internet has revolutionized our world in a very short time. And a lot has also changed with regard to the promotion of books or any other art object. It is for this reason that many emerging writers release e-books for download on various portals. If the book is worth it, the author’s popularity can skyrocket in no time. All e-books can be downloaded for free after quick registration.
The complete books in the free download are generally classic texts of English literature that have lost their copyrights, the famous copyright, due to various factors: the author has been deceased for over 70 years, the emerging author has distributed the book free of rights, the publishing house decides to make the text free for a certain period, and so on.
It is usually not uncommon to come across recent e-books and even bestsellers in free digital copies, or at most sold at a symbolic and affordable price.
This site is dedicated to world literature which is very rich, on the other, there is a specific rib that will make all parents happy. This is a page dedicated to fairy tales and classic stories that are told to the little ones in the evening to make them fall asleep. There is a function to listen to fairy tales online for the little ones too. Furthermore, the site periodically updates the list of books available, also in this case dedicated to the right audience.