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Dans le coeur d'Ebenezer Scrooge règne un froid plus glaçant que le vent d'hiver. A l'approche de Noël, ce vieux grincheux s'agace de voir l'atmosphère joyeuse qui règne en ville gagner le coeur de ses semblables et n'a qu'un mot a la bouche : "Sottise ! " Car Scrooge passera les fêtes comme il les a toujours passées en solitaire. A moins que la visite de trois esprits de Noël le fasse changer d'avis... Paru en 1843, rapidement devenu un classique de la littérature anglo-saxonne, ce conte en cinq couplets enchante tous les lecteurs par sa fraîcheur et son humour intemporels.

Dickens burning passion for theater has often been overlooked by fans of his novels. A keen playwright and actor, he staged performances for which he oversaw every detail, and personally adapted many of his own fictional works. As a consummate self-publicist, he also undertook numerous stage tours and public readings of his own work. For Dickens, and for large swathes of Victorian society, theatre was a way of life and a hub of community: audience and performers would swell out onto the streets and into nearby drinking establishments after each show. Drawing on a variety of sources, both fictional and journalistic, this collection portrays a careers worth of Dickens musings, critiques, and opinions on one of his most revered passions and pastimesthe theater.

En 1857, Charles Dickens y Wilkie Collins se pusieron a escribir una historia a cuatro manos. El resultado fue esta divertida novela protagonizada por dos profesionales del ocio, dos amigos cuya holgazaneria constituye un paradojico acto de rebeldia en una Inglaterra victoriana que ensalzaba la diligencia y la productividad como virtudes rectoras.Como el Bartleby de Herman Melville, el duo comico formado por Thomas Idle y Francis Goodchild preferiria no hacer nada, o al menos nada que comporte un esfuerzo demasiado oneroso. Aun asi, hilarantes aunque modestas aventuras les salen al paso en sus viajes por los pueblos de Inglaterra. La ascension de una montaña, un dia en las carreras de caballos, un partido de criquet, un trayecto en ferrocarril o la visita a un balneario; hasta la actividad mas anodina puede propiciar el encuentro con personajes pintorescos y situaciones disparatadas que acabaran por reafirmar a Thomas Idle en su resolucion de no volver a ser activo nunca mas, bajo ningun pretexto y por todo el tiempo que le quedara de vida.Esta deliciosa novela de espiritu cervantino da rienda suelta, a traves de digresiones e historias intercaladas, a lo mejor de cada autor: el realismo lirico y la satira social de Dickens, el misterio y el suspense que con tanto exito cultivo Collins.

Marley was dead: to begin withOne ghostly Christmas night, coldhearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge gets the fright of his life, discovers the truth about himself, and learns to love his neighbour.This adaptation by David Edgar of the Charles Dickens classic one of the best-loved stories ever written rediscovers the social conscience of the timeless tale.It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for Christmas 2017, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh. The smash-hit, critically acclaimed production was revived in 2018, and again in 2022, with Adrian Edmondson in the role of Scrooge.

I. Introducción. 1. El contexto literario. 2. La estructura narrativa de "Great Expectations". 3. ¿El progreso de un snob? Pip y el ideal victoriano del caballero. 4. Violencia, imaginación y lenguaj

"...tenía el suficiente conocimiento como para saber que nunca se hizo nada en este globo, para bien de la humanidad, sin que ello suscitara, ya de entrada, la hilaridad de ciertas gentes". "Ch. Dick

Hard Times is Charles Dickenss tenth novel that has been considered most seriously by literary critics and historians. It concentrates on the portrayal of the English society of the nineteenth century as well as on its different cultural and economic aspects. The story, which is set in a fictional Victorian town, is divided into three parts which are respectively entitled "Sowing,""Reaping," and "Garnering." The central character of the first part is Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy man, a school headmaster and a father to 5 children. Generally, Mr. Gradgrind is a man of reason and thought, but also of strict rules and codes of behavior. The narrative gives minute details of his daily activities and habits as well as of the way he brings up his children, teaching them principles of rationalism and self-interest. The story then follows the existence of his children and family in the remaining parts of the novel. Dickens mainly deals with the much-debated social issues of the time such as the importance of professional careers, love and marriage. By the end of the narrative, Mr. Gradgrind eventually seems to become less categorical as to his strict principles of rationalism and utilitarianism.

Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife's death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens's most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age.

The lives of the old mill workers, Stephen and Rachael, made of suffering and impotent rebellion, characteristic of the Industrial Revolution.

Narra le vicende di Samuel Pickwick e di un gruppo di amici con il quale fonda lomonimo circolo e con i quali compie un viaggio distruzione nellInghilterra vittoriana. Libro in lingua originale ingle

A collection of the best collected and uncollected short stories written by Charles Dickens. It contains: Uncollected Short Stories: The Lamplighter, Captain Murderer, To Be Read At Dusk, Hunted Down, Three Ghost Stories, George Silvermans Explanation, Holiday Romance - In Four Parts, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Cricket On The Hearth. Christmas Short Stories: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Of Christmas, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is As We Grow Older, Tom Tiddlers Ground, Going Into Society, Somebodys Luggage, Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings, Mrs. Lirripers Legacy, The Wreck Of The Golden Mary, Dr. Marigolds Prescriptions, The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn, The Seven Poor Travellers-In Three Chapters, The Perils Of Certain English Prisoners, Mugby Junction, The Holly-TreeThree Branches, A Message From The Sea, The Chimes: A Goblin Story, The Christmas Goblins, The Poor Traveler, The Haunted Man And The Ghosts Bargain. Sketches By Boz: Illustrative Of Every Day Life And Every-Day People Sketches Of Young Gentlemen Sketches Of Young Couples Mudfog And Other Sketches Master Humphreys Clock Reprinted Pieces: The Long Voyage, The Begging-Letter Writer, A Childs Dream Of A Star, Our English Watering-Place, Our French Watering-Place, Bill-Sticking, Births. Mrs. Meek, Of A Son, Lying Awake, The Ghost Of Art, Out Of Town, Out Of The Season, A Poor Mans Tale Of A Patent, The Noble Savage, A Flight, The Detective Police, Three Detective Anecdotes, On Duty With Inspector Field, Down With The Tide, A Walk In A Workhouse, Prince Bull. A Fairy Tale, A Plated Article, Our Honourable Friend, Our School, Our Vestry, Men Of Mooneymount, Our Bore, A Monument Of French Folly.