In this novel, Dickens describes one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical, fearful and grimly realistic. In a book which is part autobiographical, the novelist transmutes his life-experience into a series of comic and sentimental adventures.
Bir şehrin birçok binaları arasında sadece fakirlerin barındığı bir ev vardı. Parası olmayanlar, yaşayacak yer bulamayan zavallılar oraya sığınırlardı. İşte buraya ''düşkünlerevi'' adı verilmişti.
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Dombey and Son, Charles Dickenss story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the authors gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickenss genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything hes planned to give, and then more. This Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1867 Charles Dickens edition.
La vida de Charles Dickens té alguna cosa de novel·lesca, i no és cap casualitat que faci pensar en personatges i situacions centrals de la seva obra. Especialment a David Copperfield, narrada en primera persona, on reprén aspectes autobiogràfics en construir lodissea del seu protagonista. La crueltat del padrastre, la tirania del mestre, la malícia dels impostors i els amors enganyosos creen un ambient de misèria material i moral que només el protagonista, sol, en distanciar-se de la pròpia experiència, pot capgirar amb fortuna. David Copperfield, lobra preferida per lautor, mostra el Dickens més crític amb les desgraciades conseqüències del sistema capitalista sorgit amb la revolució industrial. El lector català té a labast el luxe de llegir aquesta obra mestra de la literatura anglesa en una brillant traducció de Josep Carner.
El doctor Manette, víctima y símbolo de las injusticias cometidas por la nobleza francesa con su pueblo, recupera la libertad tras años de encarcelamiento en la Bastilla y viaja a Londres para sobreponerse junto a su hermosa hija Lucía y olvidar tantas calamidades. Pero cuando la vida parece volver a sonreírles, en París estalla la Revolución...
Widely regarded as Dickens' s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which " whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther' s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set against the foggy backdrop of the Court of Chancery. Mixing romance, mystery, comedy, and satire, Bleak House limns the suffering caused by the intricate inefficiency of the law. The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the first single-volume edition, published by Bradbury & Evans in 1853, and reproduces thirty-nine of H. K. Browne' s original illustrations for the book.
Ebenezer Scrooge is rich and mean. At Christmas, he is visited by three ghosts, who show him his past, present and future. Scrooge realises it is better to be generous and happy than mean and miserab
Ebenezer Scrooge is rich and mean. At Christmas, he is visited by three ghosts, who show him his past, present and future. Scrooge realises it is better to be generous and happy than mean and miserab
Temps difícils és una de les novel·les més representatives de Dickens i, sens dubte, la més social. Els treballadors i la vida obrera durant el desenvolupament industrial a la Gran Bretanya ocupen una partimportant en la temàtica d'aquesta obra, que pren dimensions teòriques i històriques. Tres ambients se superposen: el de l'utilitarisme de Mr. Grandgrind, el qual rebrà conseqüències negatives per a ell i per ala seva família; el del món simbòlic i fantàstic del circ, i el de Stephen, que esdevindrà «víctima» i, d'alguna manera, redimirà els altres personatges.
