Dickens story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christsmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Chritsmas.
«No estábamos preparados para tal cantidad de genuino humor, e impresionante conocimiento de la vida, presentados de una forma tan poco pretenciosa.» The Examiner (4 de febrero de 1838)El éxito en 18
Oliver é un orfo abandonado nun hospicio que se ve empurrado a convivir con delincuentes nos baixos fondos londinienses. As súas peripecias para vencer o seu destino e forxar o seu propio destino son narradas de forma maxistral por Dickens, que combina habilmente a vivida descricion de ambientes e personaxes e o sentido do humor para retratar a situacion de opresion social da epoca.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'. 'A Christmas Carol] seems to be a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness.' --William Makepeace Thackeray
One of Dickens's best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens's own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight original illustrations by 'Phiz.' Introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders facilitated a proper understanding of period details and plot structure. I will continue to use this edition in future classes on Dickens's novels. Helge Nowak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtitaet
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When David's mother dies, he is sent to work in London. He hates his job so he runs away. He has no money for food or for travelling. But it is the beginning of his life of adventure
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society. Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of England's greatest novelists. Born into a poor family (his father was once imprisoned for debt), Dickens became both rich and famous in his lifetime.
Relato de fantasmas que ha gozado del favor del público desde el mismo momento de su aparición, Canción de Navidad (1843) narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad, y de resul
"Publicada inicialmente por fascículos entre mayo de 1849 y noviembre de 1850, David Copperfield es la octava novela de Dickens, y su favorita. Es además la más autobiográfica. En ella un es
Editorial Base celebra el 200 aniversari del naixement de Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge només pensa en els diners. Al seu cor fred i petri mai no han cabut l'amor o la generositat i, ara que s'apropa el Nadal, esta de pitjor humor que mai. Si per ell fos, faria penjar a tots els qui li desitgen bones festes, inclos el seu nebot, que l'ha convidat a passar la nit de Nadal a casa seva. El vell Scrooge s'estima mes sopar tot sol a la seva ombrivola llar. Sera alla, a prop de la mitjanit, quan el fantasma del seu difunt soci, Jacob Marley, retorni des del mes enlla per portar-li un missatge que canviara la seva forma d'entendre la vida. Magistral en l'aspecte ritmic, brillant en la troba de jocs de paraules i intensa en la plasticitat i l'emotivitat, Canço de Nadal es una petita joia literaria que hom no pot deixar de llegir.
Dickens observador y fino humorista inglés, conocio en su niñez las privaciones que habian de ser, junto con el optimismo y la ternura las características m&aacut
La Cançó de Nadal, escrita per Charles Dickens el 1843, és un clàssic ben conegut. Daquells que ve de gust llegir i rellegir moltes vegades.Ens conta la història de Scrooge, un vell avar, mesquí i d
