John Forster fut un biographe et critique anglais dont le travail s'est penché sur les vies et les époques de figures historiques importantes. Son style méticuleux et son approche analytique ont offert aux lecteurs des aperçus profonds des moments cruciaux de l'histoire anglaise et des portraits convaincants de ses acteurs clés. Observateur avisé de l'histoire et de la littérature, Forster s'est imposé comme une figure notable au sein des cercles littéraires de son époque.
Inspired by the song "This Pretty Planet," this whimsical picture book offers a heartfelt celebration of Earth. Through charming illustrations, it invites readers to appreciate the beauty and wonder of our planet, fostering a sense of hope and connection to nature.
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.