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Charles II (10 October 1332 – 1 January 1387), known as the Bad, [a] was King of Navarre beginning in 1349, as well as Count of Évreux beginning in 1343, holding both titles until his death in 1387.
David later invites Steerforth to Yarmouth to meet Daniel Peggotty, a fisherman who is the brother of his former housekeeper Clara Peggotty. The illustration by Phiz shows that David Copperfield is responsible for the intrusion of Steerforth into the Peggotty household on the night of Emily's engagement to Ham, and all that followed. [ 1 ]
Charles Patrick Ranke Graves (1 December 1899 – 20 February 1971) was a British journalist, travel writer and novelist. He came from a large literary family. He came from a large literary family. Among his nine siblings were the writers Robert Graves and Philip Graves .
Charles the Bald receives the book, in the presentation miniature (fol. 423) David Composing Psalms. Vivian Bible. Tours, c. 845. The First [1] Bible of Charles the Bald (BNF Lat. 1), also known as the Vivian Bible, is a Carolingian-era Bible commissioned by Count Vivian of Tours in 845, the lay abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours, and presented to Charles the Bald in 846 on a visit to the church ...
G. K. Chesterton published an important defence of Dickens in his book Charles Dickens in 1906, where he describes him as this "most English of our great writers". [172] Dickens's literary reputation grew in the 1940s and 1950s because of essays by George Orwell and Edmund Wilson (both published in 1940), and Humphrey House's The Dickens World ...
David first meets the 15-year-old Heep when he comes to live with Mr. Wickfield and his daughter Agnes.. Uriah is a law clerk working for Mr. Wickfield. He realises that his widowed employer has developed a severe drinking problem and turns it to his advantage.
Tommaso Boddi/WireImage Soap opera star David Gail’s cause of death has been revealed. Gail, who was best known for his role as Dr. Joe Scanlon on the General Hospital spinoff Port Charles, died ...
Charles Bukowski was the inspiration behind the first chapter of Mark Manson's bestselling self-help book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. His problems with drugs, women and alcoholism despite being a bestselling writer were discussed in the chapter titled "Don't Try" – a reference to the epitaph on the author's gravestone.