Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States.Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun.
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born Dublin on October 16,1856. His father was noted surgeon. He was lazy with a wonderful memory.Oscar was a irish wit,poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces lady windermare"s fan(1892). and the importance of being Ernest(1895).in 1891 Wilde published his first volume of poems. The following year he attrached much attention on a lecture tour in the united states of america.In 1884 he married with Constance Lloyd,daughter of a prominent irish barrister,two children,Cyril and Vyvyan,were born in 1885.

QUESTIONS:

1) With what purpose did the writer write these book?

2) What is the principal character of these book?

3) What is the difference between Dickens writing style and Wilde´s?

4) How was the relationship between Oscar Wilde and his wife?

5) What is Wilde´s book we are going to read these bimester?