3 résultats pour "greed"
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Greed (film)
tif de la M-G- M confisqua les bobines et fit réduire la longueur du film à 140 minutes, ce qui est fmalement la seule version qui fut jamais montrée au public. Erich von Stroheim supporta mal la mutilation de Greed, il n'accepta de revoir le film qu'en 1950 et en fut profondément peiné et déçu. · Un jour de .1922, alors qu'il était directeur général de la production à Universal, Irving Thalberg, agacé par les extravagances du créateur;...
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Charles Dickens.
The Old Curiosity Shop broke hearts across Britain and North America when it first appeared. Later readers, however, have found it excessively sentimental, especially the pathos surrounding the death of its child-heroine Little Nell. Dickens’s next two works proved less popular with the public. Barnaby Rudge, Dickens’s first historical novel, revolves around anti-Catholic riots that broke out in London in 1780. The events in Martin Chuzzlewit become a vehicle for the novel’s theme: selfishne...
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Charles Dickens
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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...