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Perhaps Dickens''s best-loved work, Great Expectations features memorable characters such as the convict Magwitch, the mysterious Miss Havisham and her proud ward Estella, as Pip unravels the mystery of his benefactor and of his own heart. Widely adapted for film and television, the story attracts readers of all ages.This edition reprints the authoritative text of the Clarendon edition, correcting both original printer''s errors and later textual corruptions, and retains facsimiles of the original title-pages for each of the three volumes of the 1861 edition.Robert Douglas-Fairhurst''s new introduction ranges widely across critical issues raised by the novel: its biographical genesis; the effect of the past on the present, ideas of origin and progress and what makes a ''gentleman'', memory, melodrama, and the book''s critical reception.Four appendices: the original ending to the novel; the different chapter numbering in the serial version; Dickens''s working notes; two pages from the theatrical adaptation of the novel made by, or with the approval of, Dickens.The fullest set of critical notes in any mass-market edition.New to this Edition:Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.Expanded notes.New and updated Select Bibliography.New Chronology.New appendix featuring pages from the theatrical adaptation of the novel.Reset text.

Questo romanzo storico, anche se non tra i piu conosciuti di Dickens, e diventato negli anni il testo piu venduto al mondo, segno dellimpegno sociale descritto dalle vicende storiche di due famiglie, Manette ed Evremonde, separate dal ceto di provenienza e riunite dal destino nel vortice sanguinario della Rivoluzione Francese, che divennero familiari non solo per i lettori della meta dellOttocento per i quali leggere del Regime del Terrore non doveva essere poi tanto diverso da quanto non lo sia per noi leggere un racconto della seconda Guerra Mondiale ma per milioni di lettori ancora oggi.Il romanzo, infatti, e ambientato a Parigi e Londra durante la Rivoluzione francese e negli anni del Regime del Terrore. In esso vengono rappresentati la sottomissione del proletariato francese alloppressione dellaristocrazia negli anni precedenti la rivoluzione, e la successiva brutalita dei rivoluzionari nei primi anni della rivoluzione. Segue le vite di diversi protagonisti attraverso questi eventi, in particolare Charles Darnay, un ex-aristocratico francese che diviene vittima di accuse indiscriminate durante la rivoluzione, e Sydney Carton, un avvocato inglese che cerca di redimere la propria vita per amore della moglie di Darnay, Lucie Manette, il cui padre venne ingiustamente imprigionato nella Bastiglia.Dickens condanna lignobilta di una casta che aveva perso, in Francia, il diritto a rivendicare il ruolo di guida morale e civile della nazione e insieme anche la crudelta scaturita dallopposizione a quei soprusi. Le due citta evocano, nel parallelismo - anche se con esiti diversi - delle vicende giudiziarie di Darnay/Evremonde a Londra e Parigi, una sorta di dualismo tra lequilibrio del sistema anglosassone e lestremismo dei Lumi francesi.Il racconto non ha un protagonista principale; emergono, ed e forse uno dei primi casi in letteratura, le folle come protagoniste: la massa umana, che assalta la Bastiglia, prigione simbolo delloppressione feudale.Dickens lancia attraverso il tempo passato, un monito al tempo presente in cui e ancora viva la minaccia della ripetizione dellantico. Si deve, infatti, tener conto che nel 1859 (anno di pubblicazione del romanzo) e ancora ben vivo il ricordo dei tumulti e delle agitazioni dovute allapprovazione della Corn Law e quello dei moti rivoluzionari a seguito del movimento cartista, che con la sua richiesta di una radicale riforma elettorale, rievocava i fantasmi del Terrore francese.Per Dickens la rivoluzione e una malattia, e febbre e delirio di autodistruzione il cui contagio si propaga a velocita spaventosa.La societa e continuamente minacciata a causa degli squilibri della distribuzione della ricchezza e la folla sottoposta a continui soprusi diventa facilmente crudele e incontrollabile: a quel tempo la folla era un mostro molto temuto e che non si fermava davanti a nulla. In queste note si comprende anche la grande attualita del romanzo di Dickens e le motivazioni ad una lettura odierna.

Sur la route de Douvres, un vendredi de l’année 1775, la malle-poste montait péniblement la côte de Shooter’s Hill… Soufflant, suant, trébuchant, les chevaux avançaient lentement sur le sol boueux… P

Oliver Twist: orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dicken''s most enduring child character.Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you''ll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman and his brood of thieves and pickpockets. Fagin will bring you to the trade'', and make something of you, something profitable.But there''s something about the young orphan Oliver that''s too good for this dark and dangerous world can he ever escape its clutches?

Christmas is a time for family, friends, and loved ones to come together and celebrate the season. For some, it is also a time of reflection on the past year and preparations for the coming one. For Ebenezer Scrooge, it is a time to be alone.Since he was a child, Scrooge has been taught that Christmas is a time for charity and goodwill toward others. But after being forced into retirement by his ruthless business partner, Scrooge finds himself lonely at Christmastime. One night in front of his fire, Scrooge has a dream in which an old man named Jacob Marley shows him all of the ways he has wronged others over the years. The most important lesson from Jacob Marley is that change can happen if someone truly wants it to.After waking up from his dream, Scrooge decides to start living life more positively and helps three poor people during Christmas Eve services. Inspired by this change in attitude, other people begin to show up at his door asking for help - even old friends from when he was still successful in business have come back to ask for his advice. In the end, Scrooge learns that happiness comes not from things but from within oneself and shares this message with everyone at his Christmas party.This simple story about redemption contains powerful lessons about self-awareness and forgiveness that are relevant today more than ever. With its timeless messages of hope and encouragement, A Christmas Carol will touch readers hearts deeply as they journey along with Ebenezer Scrooge on his journey to becoming a better person."It is a classic and it is one of the most loved Christmas stories ever written.It is a story with a lot of moral teachings which can be applied to our lives today.It is a story that will make you laugh and it will make you cry.It is a story that will make you think.It is a story that will make you want to be a better person.It is a story that is worth reading and worth remembering.

A Christmas Carol is one of the best loved and most quoted of all English language Christmas stories.First published in 1843, it never fails to make an appearance every Christmas in some form. Ebenezer Scrooge, a most disagreeable curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley. Marley informs him that he is to receive three visitors this Christmas Eve.They are the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. By the next morning the change in Scrooge is astonishing, he has become a kind, generous, caring and thoughtful person.Dickens'' flair for characters has left us with two who have gone past the story and entered into the English speaking culture - Scrooge and Tiny Tim.

Or, ce que je veux, ce sont des faits. Enseignez des faits a ces garçons et a ces filles, rien que des faits. Les faits sont la seule chose dont on ait besoin ici-bas. Ne plantez pas autre chose et deracinez-moi tout le reste. Ce nest quau moyen des faits quon forme lesprit dun animal qui raisonne: le reste ne lui servira jamais de rien. Cest dapres ce principe que jeleve mes propres enfants, et cest dapres ce principe que jeleve les enfants que voila. Attachez-vous aux faits, monsieur!

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts from the various rooms and reporting back on Twelfth Night. The resulting ghost stories form the basis of a thrilling narrative.For this work, commissioned for his periodical "All the Year Round", Dickens enlisted some of the period''s most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic.

In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional 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, trade unions and the spurious use of statistics.Perhaps the most polemical of his novels in which hard-biting satire, moving drama and exuberant comedy find a very succinct and powerful expression Hard Times is the ideal introduction to the world of Dickens.

Dieses Buch vereint die Geschichten "Der Behexte und der Pakt mit dem Geiste", "Die Silvesterglocken" und "Auf der Walstatt des Lebens". Es sind phantastische Geschichten, die sich besonders fur eine Lekture zur Weihnachtszeit eignen.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story).It is Dickenss second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] The novel was first published as a serial in Dickenss weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickenss most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture.These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickenss themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations, which is popular both with readers and literary critics, has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.

Borges sospechaba que una parte de su fama se debía al hecho de «haber ordenado en el dialecto de nuestro tiempo las cinco o seis metáforas». Dickens suponía que los fantasmas pertenecen a dos o tres