Dopo Vanity Fair, non riesco a "schiodarmi" dalla Londra di inizio '800! A dire il vero, dopo quel mattone (piacevolissimo, ma pur sempre un mattone!), non mi sarebbe dispiaciuto leggere qualcosa di leggero, breve e in italiano, ma non ho trovato nulla di "adatto" (pur avendo casa piena di libr...
The 19th century saw a series of panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums, and public feeling often ran high against the rising 'alienist' (or 'mad doctor') profession. English liberty was seen to be under threat from a new class of men who would sign away freedom in ret...
Her maid, Villiers, came into the room and announced that a Mr Shell and a Mr Stewart were downstairs and wished to see her. ‘Send them up!’ she said, believing them to be her friends, the music publishers Duff & Stewart, and that Villiers had mistaken Duff’s name. It was an odd time to pay a...
I and Williams took him to my house about half-past ten o’clock on the Thursday night, the 3rd of November, from the Bell, in Smithfield. He walked home with us. Williams promised to give him some work. Williams went with him from the Bell to the Old Bailey watering-house, whilst I went to the Fo...