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Charles Dickens is the greatest writer of the Victorian era who became the classic of English literature while still being alive. This book contains the cream of authors creations. Here can be found an amusing novel about the adventures of English gentlemen The Pickwick Papers and fascinating story Great Expectations about wealth that came upon a young apprentice Pip. The book is garnished with such novels as Oliver Twist which is about a young vagrant who unexpectedly finds relatives and David Copperfield that describes the power of human will in overcoming any difficulties on the way to happiness. Dickens can be called one of the most human loving authors, he teaches the reader to be sincerely happy or sad. To be sad because of the horrible misery the characters of his books feel, to be happy due to kind and soft humour inseparable with the narration of his characters life adventures.

In Charles Dickens masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated Edition), the reader is transported to both London and Paris during the turbulent times of the French Revolution. The novel is written in Dickens signature style, filled with rich descriptions, complex characters, and intricate plot twists. Through the parallel stories of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, Dickens explores themes of sacrifice, redemption, and the consequences of social injustice. The vivid illustrations in this edition further enhance the readers experience, bringing the setting and characters to life in a new way. A Tale of Two Cities not only provides a gripping narrative but also serves as a commentary on the political and social climate of the time. Charles Dickens, known for his social commentary and memorable characters, drew inspiration for this novel from historical events and his observations of society. His own experiences of poverty and struggles in Victorian England likely fueled his passion for social reform, which is evident in his works. Dickens meticulous attention to detail and strong narrative voice make A Tale of Two Cities a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers today. I recommend A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated Edition) to readers who appreciate literary masterpieces, historical fiction, and thought-provoking themes. This edition, complete with illustrations, offers a fresh perspective on a classic novel that remains relevant and impactful.

La novela responsable de incontables adaptaciones a la pantalla grande, entre ellas el exitoso y galardonado musical Oliver!, aventúrate a escuchar de las aventuras del niño titular.Oliver Twist es la historia de un niño huerfano, nacido a las terribles injusticias y crueldades de la Inglaterra Victoriana. Pasara por un orfanato, un enterrador y una banda de criminales, enfrentando dificultades en cada paso. Considerada por muchos como la primera novela social, debido a su honesta y poco romantizada descripcion del lado mas oscuro de la sociedad Victoriana, este relato te tendra escuchando atentamente para saber hasta donde llegara el pequeño Oliver.-

"La llamada del fantasma es una extraña vibración en la campana que no viene de parte alguna, y no he afirmado que la campana se mueva delante de los ojos. No me extraña que usted no la oyera. Pero yo si la escuche."El trabajo de un guardavias es comunicar cualquier peligro que se encuentre en los rieles a su cargo. Cuando un extraño hombre grita peligro, pero no explica de que tipo ni donde se encuentra, el guardavias no puede actuar, ya que su oficio depende de exactitud. Cuando las advertencias del misterioso hombre son reales, pero desaparece sin dejar rastro, ¿que se puede hacer al respecto? Si solo las apariciones hablaran de manera clara.El Guardavias cuenta la escalofriante historia del protagonista titular, que en la monotonia de su trabajo, en la boca de un frio y oscuro tunel, se encuentra con lo paranormal. -

El propio Charles Dickens escribió sobre su octava novela: "como muchos padres, tengo un hijo preferido, un hijo que es mi debilidad; este hijo se llama David Copperfield." La novela se publicó en 1850 y cuenta la historia de David Copperfield desde su infancia hasta que llega a la madurez, sobre todo, lo que experimenta y la extensa galeria de amigos y enemigos que encuentra en su camino. El narrador es el mismo David, un joven sensible que, despues de una infancia brutal y muchas dificultades, se convierte en un escritor famoso. ¿Suena familiar? David Copperfield es probablemente la obra mas autobiografica de Dickens. -

Novel set between London and Paris, which portrays the brutal response of the people demoralized towards the French aristocracy, which will lead to the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of T

The story traces the life and the formation of David Copperfield. The sad and unfortunate childhood, the growth under the wing of Aunt Betsey to the maturity.

Vita di Charles Dickens e la prima biografia sul romanziere inglese, scritta da John Forster e pubblicata nel 1875. Nato a Newcastle-on Tyne (1812-1876), figlio di un commerciante di bestiame, Forster studia a Cambridge per diventare avvocato. Tuttavia dopo luniversita preferisce dedicarsi allattivita di giornalista. In breve diventa famoso nei circoli letterari come critico soprattutto dopo la pubblicazione nel 1840 del Treatise on the Popular Progress in English History. Nel Natale del 1836 il romanziere William Harrison Ainsworth gli presenta Charles Dickens con il quale inizia una assidua corrispondenza fino a diventare il suo confidente di fiducia. A partire dal Pickwick e per i romanzi successivi, Forster e consulente di Dickens per quel che riguarda la progettazione, la scrittura e la revisione dei testi. Nel 1868 inizia la biografia su Charles Dickens, lavoro per cui ancora oggi e maggiormente conosciuto. Il libro e basato sulla prima versione tradotta dallinglese della biografia, pubblicata a Milano nel 1879 presso la Tipografia Editrice Lombarda.

Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocents unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dickens most memorable characters, including the vicious Bill Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger.

Novela de suspenso de Charles Dickens y Wilkie Collins que plantea una serie de misterios, conformando una trama atrapante. En la sección Aquí y ahora, se apela a los saberes informales de los lectores sobre el genero suspenso. En Enfoques para analizar, se trabaja el concepto de novela y, en particular, las caracteristicas de la novela.

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickensis anovelbyCharles Dickens, originally published inserialform between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in theMarshalseaprison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew.The novelsatirisessome shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution ofdebtors prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work and yet incarcerated until they had repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickenss own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the impotent bureaucracy of the British government, in this novel in the form of the fictional "Circumlocution Office". Dickens also satirises the stratification of society that results from theBritish class system.The novel begins inMarseilles"thirty years ago" (c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his prison cellmate John Baptist Cavalletto how he killed his wife, just prior to being taken to trial. Businessman Arthur Clennam is detained with other travellers in quarantine in Marseilles and becomes friends with the merchants Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, their spoiled daughter "Pet", and their maid, an orphan named Harriet Beadle the family has nicknamed Tattycoram.Another traveller, Miss Wade, takes interest in the rebellious Tattycoram. Arthur has spent the last twenty years in China with his father, handling that part of the family business; his father died recently there. Arthur is now returning to London to see his mother, Mrs Clennam.

Conto clássico de Charles Dickens (autor de "Grandes esperanças", "Oliver Twist" e muitos outros clássicos) em nova tradução contemporânea, "A história de uma criança" é uma grande metáfora sobre a

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It tells the tale of the plight of the peasants in the face of the aristocracy. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope youll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and cant wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

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.

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as "The Pickwick Papers"-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.

"Grandes Esperanças" é considerado uma das obras-primas de Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Dividido em três partes, discutindo a bondade, a culpa e o desejo de seus personagens, o romance originalmente

En 1865, Charles Dickens sufrió un accidente cuando descarriló el tren en el que viajaba. Un año después, vivió una mala experiencia con el servicio de la estación de Rugby, donde tuvo que quedarse durante un dia entero. Fue a partir de estos sucesos que Dickens decidio, junto con sus colaboradores Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday y Hesba Stretton, escribir una serie de relatos repletos de humor negro que encuentran su punto de union en Mugby Junction: un bullicioso cruce ferroviario en el que confluyen las historias de los operarios y los viajeros que lo atraviesan. Con este libro, recuperamos estos cuentos tal y como fueron publicados en el especial navideño de la revista All the Year Round.

Puede que la vida de los Nickleby no sea la más interesante, pero sin duda es apacible... hasta que el padre muere y la familia debe ir a Londres para pedir ayuda a un mezquino pariente. A cambio, este pone una condicion: su sobrino trabajara como profesor en una escuela de Yorkshire. El joven e impulsivo Nicholas parte lleno de entusiasmo, pero pronto descubre que alli el director se asemeja mas a un carcelero dispuesto a atormentar a sus alumnos y que a el, para su desgracia, se le da muy mal acatar ordenes que desprecia.Actores teatrales de caracter dramatico, viejos usureros, amigos (o no) que se retan a duelos, damas acorraladas por pretendientes excentricos, caballeros perseguidos por señoritas de viva imaginacion y una serie de conspiraciones se entretejen en una incisiva satira que no solo cosecho un exito incuestionable nada mas publicarse, sino que consiguio frenar los malos tratos de las escuelas de Yorkshire y, en la actualidad, sigue fascinando a los lectores por su retrato ironico de lo que sucede cuando se valora mas el afan de lucro que el de ayudar al projimo. Escrita justo despues de Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby es una obra magistral que ahora se presenta en español con una nueva traduccion integra y las ilustraciones originales de Phiz.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Pickwick Papers- Oliver Twist- Nicholas Nickleby- The Old Curiosity Shop- Barnaby Rudge- Martin Chuzzlewit- Dombey and Son- David Copperfield- Bleak House- Hard Times- Little Dorrit- A Tale of Two Cities- Great Expectations- Our Mutual Friend- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Ebenezer Scrooge es un viejo agrio, avaro y cruel que no cree en la generosidad, el buen humor y el cariño, sólo en los negocios y el dinero. Pero todo cambia cuando una noche, la víspera de Navidad, recibe la visita de un espectro conocido y los espiritus de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras...El clasico navideño de Dickens en una nueva edicion con las ilustraciones en color de Quentin Blake, el celebre ilustrador de Roald Dahl, y traduccion integra. ¡Una preciosa y divertida version del viejo Scrooge y sus fantasmas!