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Un grupo de amigos se reúne en una casa aparentemente encantada con la intención de descubrir evidencias de lo sobrenatural. Recluidos en sus habitaciones durante la navidad, vuelven a juntarse en la noche de reyes con el fin de contar, cada uno, las historias de sus encuentros fantasmales. La Casa encantada apareció para las navidades de 1859 en el semanario que Dickens dirigía, y en ella intervienen varios de sus colaboradores habituales, entre ellos Wilkie Collins y Elizabeth Gaskell. Cada uno de ellos encargó de narrar una historia en cada habitación de esta singular casa encantada. De este modo, crearon una obra colectiva que había permanecido hasta ahora inédita en castellano.

Un clásico indispensable inspirado en la Revolución Francesa. Dickens nos ofrece un panorama de personajes cuyas humildes vidas se ven trastornadas por el estallido de un terrible suceso histórico. La historia transcurre entre Londres y Paris durante la epoca de la Revolucion Francesa; una revolucion que se presenta como un justo castigo a la aristocracia por los siglos de explotacion y maltrato del pueblo.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth- The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree- What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relations Story- The Childs Story- The Schoolboys Story- Nobodys Story- The Seven Poor Travellers- The Holly-Tree- Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners- Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddlers Ground- Somebodys Luggage- Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings- Mrs. Lirripers Legacy- Doctor Marigold- Mugby Junction- No Thoroughfare

David Copperfield es una novela escrita por Charles Dickens y publicada por primera vez en 1850.Al igual que el resto de sus obras (a excepción de cinco de ellas), esta novela fue publicada en capítulos mensuales. Muchos elementos de la novela hacen referencia a la propia vida de Dickens, siendo probablemente la mas autobiografica de todas sus obras. Asi tambien, el mismo Dickens señalo en un prologo de la novela "de todos mis libros, este es el que mas me gusta", y luego "como muchos padres, tengo un hijo preferido, un hijo que es mi debilidad; este hijo se llama David Copperfield".

Featuring OLIVER TWIST, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND and NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, this is the definitive audio collection of Dickens' best loved works.

Originally published in 1859, "The Haunted House" by Charles Dickens is actually a compilation work, with contributions from Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, ?Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Each writer, including Dickens, writes one chapter of the tale. The premise is that a group of people has come to a well-known haunted house to stay for a period of time, experience whatever supernatural elements might be there to experience, then regroup at the end of their stay to share their stories. Each author represents a specific person within the tale and, while the genre is that of the ghost story.

Orphaned at birth and abandoned to the hardships of the workhouse, Oliver Twist lives a gruelling life of poverty.

Long convinced that his family are only after his money, the wealthy butelderly Martin Chuzzlewit takes in an orphaned girl, Mary Graham, to be hisnursemaid - promising that she will be well provided

Scrooge is a mean old man with no friends or family to love him - he's just so miserable and bitter! One freezing cold Christmas eve, three ghosts pay Scrooge a visit and an eerie night-time journey begins. The Christmas spirits are here to show Scrooge the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, will Scrooge learn to love Christmas and the others around him?

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth- The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree- What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relations Story- The Childs Story- The Schoolboys Story- Nobodys Story- The Seven Poor Travellers- The Holly-Tree- Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners- Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddlers Ground- Somebodys Luggage- Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings- Mrs. Lirripers Legacy- Doctor Marigold- Mugby Junction- No Thoroughfare

A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth- The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree- What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relations Story- The Childs Story- The Schoolboys Story- Nobodys Story- The Seven Poor Travellers- The Holly-Tree- Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners- Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddlers Ground- Somebodys Luggage- Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings- Mrs. Lirripers Legacy- Doctor Marigold- Mugby Junction- No Thoroughfare

In 'Little Dorrit', Dickens paints a portrait of a prison world in which the shadow of the Marshalsea reaches far beyond its high enclosing walls.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth - The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree - What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relations Story - The Childs Story- The Schoolboys Story- Nobodys Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly-Tree - Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddlers Ground - Somebodys Luggage - Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings- Mrs. Lirripers Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare

El viejo avaro Scrooge pasará unas Navidades que no olvidará nunca. Versión teatral.

Desde su publicación por entregas entre 1849 y 1850, David Cooperfield, el "hijo favorito" de su autor, no ha dejado más que una estela de admiración, alegría y gratitud. Para Swinburne era "una obra maestra suprema". Henry James recordaba que de niño se escondia debajo de una mesa para oir a su madre leer las entregas en voz alta. Dostoievski la leyo en su prision en Siberia. Tolstoi la consideraba el mayor hallazgo de Dickens, y el capitulo de la tempestad, el patron por el que deberia juzgarse toda obra de ficcion. Fue la novela favorita de Sigmund Freud. Kafka la imito en Amerika y Joyce la parodio en Ulises. Para Cesare Pavese, "en estas paginas inolvidables cada uno de nosotros (no se me ocurre elogio mayor) vuelve a encontrar su propia experiencia secreta". El lector tiene ahora la ocasion de recuperar esa experiencia secreta gracias a la nueva y excelente traduccion de Marta Solis, la primera en español en mas de cincuenta años de una obra clave, sin ningun genero de dudas, de la literatura universal.

Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by David Stuart Davies.Charles Dickens' fascination with ghosts and the macabre is traced to his childhood, to the grim and ghoulish stories told him by his nursemaid, Mary Weller, whom he referred to as Mercy, 'though she had none on me.' Along with the horrors of the 'penny dreadful' magazine, "The Terrific Register" - a publication which made Dickens 'unspeakably miserable and frightened the very wits out of my head' - the stories recounted by Weller were so powerful as to color Dickens' imagination and shape much of the enduring fiction he created. Here are chilling histories of coincidence, insanity and revenge.