Enjoy the timeless magic of Charles Dickens"A Christmas Story". The Christmas classic tells the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by three ghosts and undergoes a profound transformation.For generations, Dickens tale has delighted young and old during Christmas.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the worlds best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.The Ghost of Art is one of Charles Dickens most interesting short stories. Today we propose it again to our readers.I inclined my head, with as much presence of mind as I could command, and he followed me into my chambers. There, I saw that the lower part of his face was tied up, in what is commonly called a Belcher handkerchief. He slowly removed this bandage, and exposed to view a long dark beard, curling over his upper lip, twisting about the corners of his mouth, and hanging down upon his breast."What is this?" I exclaimed involuntarily, "and what have you become?"."I am the Ghost of Art!" said he.The effect of these words, slowly uttered in the thunder-storm at midnight, was appalling in the last degree. More dead than alive, I surveyed him in silence.
Las buenas intenciones sulen producir mala literatura, decía Flaubert, pensando sin duda en las obras moralizantes. Canción de Navidad es una gloriosa excepción al aforismo. Escrito bajo el peso de las ideas sociales de Dickens, concebido tal vez como una fabula moral para una epoca, una sociedad y un pais determinados, este villancico en prosa ha trascendido sus limites para conmover y entusiasmar a los lectores mas exigentes de todos los tiempos. Uno de ellos fue Robert Louis Stevenson, que, en un arrebato de entusiasmo, escribio estas palabras: ¡Que hermoso es para un hombre haber escrito libros como esos y llenar de piedad los corazones de las gentes!
Una preciosa historia adaptada para que los jóvenes lectores puedan disfrutar de la genial obra del británico Charles Dickens. En esta novela, el autor critica la existencia de las llamadas cárceles de deudores. Alli se encerraba a los que no pagaban sus deudas (a menudo junto con toda su familia, como fue el caso de Dickens). El novelista hizo un retrato tan certero de Londres y las pesimas condiciones de vida de los grupos sociales desfavorecidos que consiguio movilizar a la opinion publica.
