The novel is one of Dickens's longest and most complex, offering a sprawling panorama of social class, poverty, and crime in Victorian London.
Almost the best thing about this superb enterprise was the inspiration of putting together the three plays of childhood, marriage and death in a Nottinghamshire village as one panorama of English working-class life.
It's certainly my meticulously illustrated panorama of the year.
"Basil Street Blues," a 1999 memoir by the well-known British biographer, recounted his feckless parents' slide from fortune in a masterly panorama of waning upper-middle-class life.
Of the five comedies, written between 1525 and 1544 (modern collection, Commedie, 1914), the best known is Cortigiana (published 1534, first performed 1537, "The Courtesan"), a lively and amusing panorama of the life of the lower classes in papal Rome.
On the heels of that riveting panorama of corruption, cruelty, and struggle across classes and races in Baltimore, "Mad Men" seemed a little shallow by comparison: John O'Hara right after Dickens.
In the panorama of cationic amphiphiles, gemini surfactants are a relatively new class of molecules with peculiar physicochemical properties, composed by two or more head groups and two aliphatic chains, linked by a spacer [22].
It's a middle-class stretch with professionals living alongside retirees and a panorama of backgrounds.
The experimental results confirm that the new class of chlorine-based polymeric materials represent a very attractive proposal in the panorama of materials employed in the fabrication of electro-optical devices for telecommunication applications.
