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Il Grillo del Focolare: Edizione integrale e annotata
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚: John Peerybingle vive felicemente con la moglie Piccina, chiamata affettuosamente così perché molto più giovane di lui, quando il vecchio Tackleton mette in dubbio la fedeltà della sua giovane sposa. Insinuazione che sembra trovare conferma in un’immagine fugace e inaspettata che John ha di Piccina in colloquio intimo con un bel giovane. La storia sembra volgere in tragedia, ma interviene il grillo del focolare, nume tutelare della casa, simbolo della felicità domestica. Un racconto sul perdono, sulla fiducia, sull’amore coniugale e filiale, dove anche gli inganni a fin di bene causano un oscillante e ansioso stato d’animo tanto nei protagonisti quanto nei lettori. *** "Una favola domestica", recita il sottotitolo, in cui un piccolo grillo parla, col suo canto garrulo, di virtù e di sacrificio divenendo così un prezioso genio domestico, come vuole una popolare usanza inglese che si ricollega, andando indietro nel tempo, al culto presso gli antichi Greci della cicala, celebrata da Anacreonte, oppure alla venerazione che gli Egizi mostravano verso lo scarabeo. Si tratta, cronologicamente parlando, del terzo racconto di Natale di Charles Dickens (1812-1870) che fece palpitare i lettori del XIX secolo e che contiene una toccante e sempre attuale riflessione sulla forza dell’amore. La copertina riprende la grafica della prima edizione del 1845.
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬: (1812-1870) è il maggior narratore inglese dell’800, minuzioso e attento osservatore dei comportamenti umani e ironico, quanto tagliente, critico dei mali sociali. Fra i suoi quindici romanzi, ricordiamo i più I Quaderni Postumi del Circolo Pickwick, Le avventure di Oliver Twist, Vita e avventure di Nicholas Nickleby, Storia Personale, Avventure, Esperienze e Osservazioni di David Copperfield, Tempi Difficili, Piccola Dorrit, Grandi Speranze, Il Nostro Comune Amico. Nel 1843, con A Christmas Carol, inaugurò un periodico appuntamento, tanto atteso da migliaia di lettori dell’epoca, che si protrasse per quattro anni con altri racconti natalizi come Le Campane (1844) e Il Grillo del Focolare (1845).
Enrico De Luca è professore a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università della Calabria. Fra le numerose curatele e traduzioni ricordiamo l’edizione integrale e annotata dei primi sei titoli della serie dedicata ad Anne Shirley di Lucy Maud Montgomery (Mondadori 2022/23), autrice canadese della quale ha curato vari titoli in prima traduzione italiana come I boschi e le stagioni, Collina dei Venti e l’autobiografia Il sentiero alpino (Lindau 2021/22). Per Caravaggio Editore – presso cui dirige tutte le collane dedicate ai classici – ha pubblicato testi di Burnett, Deledda, Dickens, Fitzgerald, Gilman, Jerome, London, Malet, Montgomery, Nesbit, Sinclair, Verga, Wiggin ecc.
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬: (1812-1870) è il maggior narratore inglese dell’800, minuzioso e attento osservatore dei comportamenti umani e ironico, quanto tagliente, critico dei mali sociali. Fra i suoi quindici romanzi, ricordiamo i più I Quaderni Postumi del Circolo Pickwick, Le avventure di Oliver Twist, Vita e avventure di Nicholas Nickleby, Storia Personale, Avventure, Esperienze e Osservazioni di David Copperfield, Tempi Difficili, Piccola Dorrit, Grandi Speranze, Il Nostro Comune Amico. Nel 1843, con A Christmas Carol, inaugurò un periodico appuntamento, tanto atteso da migliaia di lettori dell’epoca, che si protrasse per quattro anni con altri racconti natalizi come Le Campane (1844) e Il Grillo del Focolare (1845).
Enrico De Luca è professore a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università della Calabria. Fra le numerose curatele e traduzioni ricordiamo l’edizione integrale e annotata dei primi sei titoli della serie dedicata ad Anne Shirley di Lucy Maud Montgomery (Mondadori 2022/23), autrice canadese della quale ha curato vari titoli in prima traduzione italiana come I boschi e le stagioni, Collina dei Venti e l’autobiografia Il sentiero alpino (Lindau 2021/22). Per Caravaggio Editore – presso cui dirige tutte le collane dedicate ai classici – ha pubblicato testi di Burnett, Deledda, Dickens, Fitzgerald, Gilman, Jerome, London, Malet, Montgomery, Nesbit, Sinclair, Verga, Wiggin ecc.
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Charles Dickens
12.8k books31.4k followersCharles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
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Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.
(from Wikipedia)
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