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This is a special, large print, educational edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In content it is an exact copy of the Longman edition ISBN 0 582 07783 4. This type book is intended for visually impaired students who attend main stream schools. The design, layout and printing are specifically adapted to the needs of such pupils. It allows a school to use the same study material in a class of mixed visual abilities. A chance encounter with an escaped convict and an unexpected summons from the mysterious Miss Havisham change the life of orphan Pip. A large gift of money from an unknown benefactor gives him 'great expectations' of becoming a gentleman and winning the hand of beautiful Estella. But the past holds many strange secrets that will cloud his hopes for happiness.

Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London. Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected? Books can change lives. Penguin Classics have inspired the imaginations of millions of readers over the world, transforming the way people think and feel forever. And now we have partnered with (RED) to bring you our selection of some of the best stories ever written, books are going to help save lives too.

«Digamos, para comenzar, que Marley estaba muerto. De eso no hay duda... Tan muerto como el clavo de una puerta» Así empieza Canción de Navidad, un relato de fantasmas que cuenta la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa el miserable y tacaño anciano Ebenezer Scrooge a consecuencia de la visita del espectro de su antiguo socio, Jacob Marley., quien hace desfilar ante él la visión de los espíritus de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras. Las emociones y las reflexiones que este recorrido remueve en Scrooge acabarán obrando en su existencia una feliz transformación. Traducción de Santiago Rodríguez Santerbás

Tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. The early scenes are particularly masterful, depicting the world as seen from the perspective of a fatherless, small boy, whose idyllic life is ruined when his mother remarries.

La extraordinaria y divertida aventura de dos personajes en período de vacaciones, con una visión muy particular de lo que es el ocio. Fue co-escrita por Charles Dickens y Wilkie Collins y cuenta

After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life. Hoodwinked by hypocritical clergymen and exploited by his employer, he finds himself forsaking love and facing professional ruin. One of Dickens's very last writings, 'George Silverman's Explanation' is a dark and psychologically insightful investigation of failure and guilt. This volume also includes two other lesser-known pieces of fiction: the novella for children 'Holiday Romance' and the detective story 'Hunted Down'.

Illustrates the condition of England through the author's depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. In "Hard Times", Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his rigid worldview on his family circle, and the uncaring businessman Mr Bounderby. Their materialist philosophies, as opposed to the world of 'fancy', or imagination, are tested throughout the novel, which also explores workers' conditions in factories, trade unions and the spurious use of statistics. Perhaps the most polemical of his major novels - in which hard-biting satire, moving drama and exuberant comedy find a very succinct and powerful expression - "Hard Times" is possibly the best introduction to the world of Charles Dickens.

One of Dickens's greatest novels, Great Expectations is also one of his most autobiographical stories, as the young protagonist Pip escapes from his troubled childhood experiences to learn for himself the perils of love, the dangers of wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies. Just as Dickens never quite recovered from the traumas of the debtor's prison and child labor, so Pip learns that his early life cut more deeply than he realizes, with unavoidable consequences. Through the lives of its unforgettable charactersPip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, EstellaGreat Expectations charts the course of an England undergoing rapid social and economic change, and tells a tale that is among the foremost classics of the English language.

impleria; era l’època de la fe i l’època de la incredulitat; l’estació de la Llum i la de les Tenebres; era la primavera de l’esperança i l’hivern de la desesperació…» Amb aquesta famosa frase començ

Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution-and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters-including the heartless fact-worshipper Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternally noble Stephen Blackpool-Hard Times carries a uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens's major novels.

Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House nos trae esta cuidada edición de colección de una de las grandes obras maestras tardías de Charles Dickens. Un joven se encamina a Londres para aceptar una herencia paterna que, segun estipula el testamento, tan solo podra disfrutar si se casa con Bella Wilfer, una hermosa muchacha a la que nunca ha conocido. Poco antes, sin embargo, aparece flotando en el Tamesis un cadaver que la policia identifica con el joven heredero. Es el principio de una onda que afectara a toda la sociedad londinense. Una novela conclusa de Dickens, Nuestro amigo comun es para muchos criticos y escritores -Italo Calvino, por ejemplo- una obra maestra absoluta en la que el autor, mas pesimista que nunca, a las puertas de la muerte, demuestra todo el vigor de su prosa y de su imaginacion en un deslumbrante ejercicio de virtuosismo literario. Italo Calvino dijo..."Los comienzos de las novelas de Dickens suelen ser memorables, pero ninguno supera el primer capitulo de Nuestro amigo comun, penultima novela que escribio y ultima que termino. Llevados por la barca del pescador de cadaveres, nos parece entrar en el reverso del mundo."