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Ridotti in miseria, un vecchio antiquario e la giovane nipote Nell lasciano la bottega dantiquario ed iniziano la loro peregrinazione per Londra, che li portera ad incontrare numerosi bizzarri personaggi e che si concludera in una tranquilla e verde cittadina, nella quale pero Nell non riuscira a trovare conforto alle sue pene fino al tragico epilogo. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.

Celeberrimo racconto che narra la conversione dellarido e tirchio Ebenezer Scrooge visitato nella notte di Natale da tre spiriti (del passato, del presente e del futuro) preceduti da unammonizione dello spettro del defunto amico e collega Jacob Marley. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.

The story traces the life and the formation of David Copperfield. The sad and unfortunate childhood, the growth under the wing of Aunt Betsey to the maturity.

Coming-of-age novel that depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip, who suddenly finds himself owning a large sum of money, given by a mysterious benefactor that will allow h

Cualquier época del año es un gran momento para reencontrarse con esta clásica novela de Charles Dickens protagonizada por el avaro señor Scrooge y los ya célebres espíritus de la Navidad Pasada, la Navidad Presente y la Navidad Futura. Un cálido relato que nos invita a tomar en consideración las cosas que realmente tienen un gran valor en la vida. El señor Scrooge vive sumido en su codicia y parece odiar a todo aquel que es feliz. No tiene amigos, no visita a su escasa familia, solo se preocupa por ganar más y más dinero y ninguna caridad parece conmover su corazón, ni siquiera en Navidad. Pero aún está a tiempo de cambiar. O eso es lo que intentarán hacerle ver los tres espíritus que lo visitan en la noche de Navidad.

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En “La pequeña Dorrit”, nos trasladamos, como en casi todas las novelas de Dickens, a Londres, donde nos encontramos a Amy Dorrit, una chica de 22 años con aspecto aniñado, que vive en la cárcel de d

The issue of a new edition of Martin Chuzzlewit tempts us to devote a few words to the consideration of what we venture to think the most brilliant and entertaining of all the works of Mr. Dickens. This new edition is in a very convenient form, and is clearly and handsomely printed; it contains, moreover, the illustrations published in the original issue, and therefore those happy young people to whom Martin Chuzzlewit is unknown may enjoy its perusal with every advantage. We do not pretend to have any observations to offer on so familiar a work that can have much novelty for the established admirers of Mr. Dickens. There are especially three parts of Martin Chuzzlewit that have thus been incorporated into the body of English thought. There is the history and character of Mr. Pecksniff; there is the figure, the habits, and the friend of Mrs. Gamp; and there is the description of all that Martin did and saw in America. Whenever an oily and plausible man is to be pointed out, he is at once called a Pecksniff. Whenever an unknown authority is quoted against us, we exclaim " Mrs. Harris;" and the press of New York, and the speeches of American statesmen, forbid us ever to forget the " Pogram Defiance" and the proceedings of the Water-toast Association. These are the great contributions of Martin Chuzzlewit to the resources of the English language, and to the completeness of English literature.

"Sketches By Boz" is a collection of 56 sketches concerning London scenes and inhabitants. Most of the stories, that are divided into four sections, are portraits, but there are also some purely fict

Since the voyage of Columbus in search of the New World, and of Raleigh in quest of El Dorado, no visit to America has excited so much interest and conjecture as that of the author of "Oliver Twist." . . . In the mean time the book, however disconcerting to those persons who had looked for something quite different, will bring no disappointment to such as can be luxuriously content with good sense, good feeling, good fun, and good writing. The information, with few exceptions, might be gained much more advantageously from the map and gazetteer. The perusal of them has served chiefly to lower our estimate of the man, and to fill us with contempt for such a compound of egotism, coxcombry, and cockneyism. . . . We have never read a book, professing to give an account of any country, which, in respect to its natural features, its towns and cities, its manners and customs, its social, civil, and religious institutionsin short, in respect to everything about which the reader wishes to receive information, or at least to ascertain the opinions of the author, is so profoundly silent as the book before us.

When "Hard Times" appeared as a serial in Household Words in 1854, Dickens was about midway in his literary career. In the same year this novel appeared in an octavo volume with a dedication to Thomas Carlyle. Its purpose, according to Dickens himself, was to satirize "those who see figures and averages and nothing elsethe representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time the men who through long years to come will do more to damage the really useful facts of Political Economy than I could do (if I tried) in my whole life." The satire, however, like much that Dickens attempted in the same vein, was not very bitter. The characters in "Hard Times" are not numerous; and the plot itself is less intricate than others by the same author. The chief figures are Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, "a man of realities," with his unbounded faith in statistics; Louisa, his eldest daughter; and Josiah Bounderby, as practical as Mr. Gradgrind, but less kind-hearted. Louisa, though many years younger than Mr. Bounderby, is persuaded by her father to marry him. She is also influenced in making this marriage by her desire to smooth the path of her brother Tom, a clerk in Mr. Bounderbys office. Though not happy, she resists the blandishments of James Harthouse, a professed friend of her husbands. To escape him she has to go home to her father; and this leads to a permanent estrangement between husband and wife. In the mean time Tom Gradgrind has stolen money from Bounderby, and to avoid punishment runs away from England ...

Tal vez porque esté inspirada en no poca medida en experiencias propias, David Copperfield era, como confesó el propio Charles Dickens, su novela favorita de entre todas las que había escrito. Sin embargo, desde entonces millones de lectores entusiastas en todas las lenguas asi lo han refrendado. Y es que en esta afortunada novela Dickens consiguio como en pocas mezclar las dosis justas de melodrama y de comicidad, de crueldad y de ternura, a traves de una amplia e inolvidable galeria de personajes entre los que destacan, aparte del propio David, su bondadosa y vehemente tia Betsey Trotwood, el amable señor Micawber, siempre sin blanca, y el perfido y disimulador Uriah Heep.

Olivers mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonelyand then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life?

Quattro racconti per l'infanzia di un grande maestro dell'Ottocento. La sospensione dell'incredulita e il presupposto di un racconto introduttivo uscito dalla penna di un bambino di otto anni. Una lisca magica che, per una sola volta puo esaudire qualunque desiderio viene donata da una Fata a una piccola Principessa. Un piccolo Capitano coraggioso di nome Boldheart combatte la sua guerra personale contro le angherie del Maestro di Grammatica Latina. Distinti ed educati piccoli signori accudiscono i grandi come fossero i loro bambini, in un paese incantato dove i grandi non devono mai far tardi, devono sempre ubbidire e per punizione sono messi nell'angolino...