L'Italia nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento, pur avendo raggiunto l'unità politica, dal punto di vista economico si trovò divisa in due parti sempre più distanti tra loro: mentre il Nord decollò della Rivoluzione industriale, il Sud rimase prevalentemente agricolo.
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. He was the second child of eight. His father was imprisoned for debts and he was sent to work in a factory for many years. Dickens began to study at nighttime when, at the age of fifteen, he found a job as an office boy at a lawyer's. He was married...