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Charles Dickens Picture Reader Adapted by Derek Sellen Human interest Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a vast amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. Who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Life is full of surprises... Dossiers: Ladies and Getlemen Transportation to Australia

La col·lecció Tramoia vol fer créixer entre els joves el cuquet del teatre. El teatre és literatura en tres dimensions. És un joc de simulació, un assaig sobre els comportaments i les circumstàncies que envolten les vivències d´infants, dones i homes. És penetrar en l´ànima de la condició humana. Fer teatre és, a més, aprendre a treballar en equip des d´una activitat lúdica altament gratificant

Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form of: - accessible yet authoritative introductions - glossary of cultural references and unfamiliar words - stimulating activities and discussion points, including activities needed to prepare for essays and examinations - chapter-by-chapter summaries - plot and character outlines - chronology of the historical events of the time - overview of the ways famous critics have read the books A student-friendly approach to literature - the way students want to read. When the orphan Pip unexpectedly comes into a fortune he is eager to forget his humble background. As Pip becomes a gentleman, his past returns to haunt him in the form of his mysterious benefactor. Alongside Pip, the novel contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters: the jilted bride, Miss Havisham, her cold, beautiful niece, Estella and the terrifying convict, Magwitch.

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickenss tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

El mensajero le miró en la cara y retrocedió unos pasos compo si hubiera recibido un golpe. Pero avanzó hacia la ventana y vió...¡Oh, sombra del hogar! ¡Oh, grillo juicioso! ¡Oh, mujer pérfida!

Olivers mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely and 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. Can he escape to find a better life? One of Charles Dickens best-known stories brings the streets of nineteenth-century London to life.

Charles Dickens is probably the greatest novelist England ever produced. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life -- along with his memorable characters -- have made him beloved by readers the world over. In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikely) heroes.

The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life in which his expectations--or some of them--are fulfilled: he is a gentleman and a success, though he soon finds that happiness doesn't necessarily accompany money and position. The novel is full of fascinating scenes and characters, among them the coldhearted Estella, the vengeful and dotty Miss Havisham, Joe Gargery the noble blacksmith, the ever-lovable Herbert Pocket, and of course Magwitch, the grotesque and terrifying but ultimately benevolent convict, one of Dickens's most vital creations. As the compelling plot progresses, Pip's fortunes rise and fall, and he slowly gains in wisdom, learning to value what is important and to abandon most of his illusions. But the moral of the story is never heavy-handed or didactic, and in telling his tale, Dickens epitomizes all the best qualities for which he became famous: a comic vision, an inventive imagination, and a bountiful appreciation for the wonderful variety and boundless possibility inherent in the most ordinary humans.

Charles Dickens Introduction, notes and acitivities by Brian Hodgkiss A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Chri