Charles Dickens

Bleak House (Annotated) Charles Dickens

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. In the mid-19th century, Charles Dickens was the most popular writer of his time. Worshiped in Europe and North America, he had reinvented Christmas Eve (expressions such as Merry Christmas! Became traditional from the impact of A Christmas story) and turned his most autobiographical novel - David Copperfield - into a public and critical success . He also played hard in favor of good causes, such as the Urania Cottage home, dedicated to the rescue of women laborers who fell out of favor. And between his fictions and the philanthropic task he had exorcised the demons that set him on fire: the innocence truncated by the debts of his father, who fell into prison forcing him to work ten hours a day, as a child, in a factory where he stuck labels in bitumen containers; and detachment from his mother, who preferred him tied to that slave job than returning to school. (For Dickens, the lack of formal education amounted to a conviction: he considered her "the most prolific father of misery and crime.") His biographer Peter Aykroyd says that two of the recurring themes of his narrative were "irresponsibility and abandonment." . He could have added that they defined the inheritance that his parents bequeathed to him: John Irresponsibility Dickens and Elizabeth Abandonment Barrow.