Name: La Declaración de George Silverman (in Spanish)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9788492865215

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La Declaración de George Silverman (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Illustrated by

Ricardo Cavolo

Publisher

Editorial Periferica

Topic

Literature

Year

2010

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 16.8 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

8492865210

ISBN13

9788492865215

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Declaración de George Silverman (in Spanish)"

A man's conscience gets the better of him in this thought-provoking novella from Charles Dickens, presented here with spectacular full-color illustrations. George Silverman recounts his life from being a poor, starving boy who spent his youth in a gloomy cellar to emerging to the outside world thanks to Brother Hawkyard, George's new guardian after the death of his parents. On the outside, George discovers new forms of grief and, for the first time, love. Unfortunately, as a young man without instinct or experience, he proves to be too impressionable, and Brother Hawkyard, as everyone else before him, takes advantage of George's sensitivity and eagerness to please, resulting in hyper self-awareness and his eventual downfall. La conciencia de un hombre se apodera de él en esta estimulante novela corta de Charles Dickens, presentada aquí con espectaculares ilustraciones a todo color. George Silverman cuenta su vida desde su niñez pobre y hambrienta viviendo en un lúgubre sótano hasta su salida al exterior gracias al Hermano Hawkyard, el nuevo tutor de George después de la muerte de sus padres. En el exterior, George conoce nuevas formas de desconsuelo y, por primera vez, el amor. Desafortunadamente, como mozo sin instinto y sin experiencia, resulta ser demasiado influenciable, y el Hermano Hawkyard, como todos los que le precedieron, explota la sensibilidad y el afán por agradar de George, lo cual lo lleva a un extremo conocimiento de sí mismo y su caída final.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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