6 résultats pour "nickleby"
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Excerpt from Nicholas Nickleby - anthology.
After some half-hour's delay Mr Squeers reappeared, and the boys took their places and their books, of which latter commodity the average might be about one toeight learners. A few minutes having elapsed, during which Mr Squeers looked very profound, as if he had a perfect apprehension of what was inside all the books,and could say every word of their contents by heart if he only chose to take the trouble, that gentleman called up the first class. Obedient to this summons there ranged themse...
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Nick Nickleby
Mark Twain
Chapitre I (en version originale)
There once lived, in
of plate in his mouth, Mr Godfrey Nickleby could, at first, scarcely believe the tidings thus conveyed to him. On examination, however, they turned out to be strictly correct. The amiable old gentleman, it seemed, had intended to leave the whole to the Royal Humane Society, and had indeed executed a will to that effect; but the Institution, having been unfortunate enough, a few months before, to save the life of a poor relation to whom he paid a weekly allowance of three shillings and sixpence,...
- Le personnage de Nickleby Nicolas
- Charles Dickens : NICOLAS NICKLEBY - Résumé et analyse
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Nicolas Nickleby
Mrs Kenwigs et les quatre petites Kenwigs EXTRAITS -------~ Portrait d'un maître d'école L'extérieur de M. Squeers ne prévenait pas en sa faveur. Il n'avait qu'un œil, et la cou tume veut qu'on en préfère deux. L' œil qu'il avait était utile indiscutablement mais sans rien de décoratif, car il était d'un gris ver dâtre et il ressemblait par sa forme à la demi-lune d'une imposte. Le côté aveugle de son visage était ridé et ratatiné, ce qui lui...
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Charles Dickens
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INTRODUCTION
Charles Dickens
English author Charles Dickens ranks as one of the most popular writers in the history of world literature.
Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837; 1837); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1837-1839; 1838); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839; 1839); The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841; 1841); Barnaby Rudge (1841); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844; 1844); Dombey and Son (1846-1848; 1848); The Personal History of David Copperfield (1849-1850; 1850); Bleak House (1852-1853; 1853); Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit (1855-1857; 1857); A Tale of Tw...