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Navidad: la ocasión para no cerrar las puertas a nadie, ni siquiera a los que se han ido... El más dickensiano de los temas en cinco cuentos inéditos hasta hoy en español.Breve colección de relatos navideños de Charles Dickens, rescatados de los numeros navideños de la revista que dirigio, Household Words, que todos los años por esas fechas y desde 1850 sacaba un especial para las fiestas. Algunos son un breve canto a la Navidad vivida como el gran momento de la hospitalidad, la ocasion para no cerrar las puertas a nadie, ni siquiera a los ausentes. Otros son relatos en los que se representa a distintos personajes alrededor del fuego contando historias en Nochebuena.Grandes relatos, pequeñas joyas, todas ellas del mejor Dickens y su espiritu navideño.

A Tale of Two Cities differs essentially from all of Dickens other novels in style and manner of treatment. Forster, in his Life of Dickens, writes that "there is no instance in his novels excepting this, of a deliberate and planned departure from the method of treatment which had been pre-eminently the source of his popularity as a novelist." To rely less upon character than upon incident, and to resolve that his actors should be expressed by the story more than they should express themselves by dialogue, was for him a hazardous, and can hardly be called an entirely successful, experiment. With singular dramatic vivacity, much constructive art, and with descriptive passages of a high order everywhere, there was probably never a book by a great humorist, and an artist so prolific in conception, with so little humor and so few remarkable figures. Its merit lies elsewhere. The two cities are London and Paris. The time is just before and during the French Revolution. A peculiar chain of events knits and interweaves the lives of a "few simple, private people" with the outbreak of a terrible public event. Dr. Manette has been a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years, languishing there, as did so many others, on some vague unfounded charge. His release when the story opens, his restoration to his daughter Lucie, the trial and acquittal of one Charles Darnay, nephew of a French marquis, on a charge of treason, the marriage of Lucie Manette to Darnay, these incidents form the introduction to the drama of blood which is to follow. Two friends of the Manette family complete the circle of important characters: Mr.

David Copperfield is the story of a young mans adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literatures great comic creations.

Este ebook presenta "Cuento de Navidad", con un indice dinámico y detallado. Cuento de Navidad (también conocido como Un Cuento de Navidad o Canción de Navidad) es un relato de fantasmas y es uno de los clasicos cuentos de Charles Dickens. Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la vispera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las mas acabadas representaciones del avaro en la historia de la literatura y otro de los inolvidables personajes de la amplia galeria de Dickens. La visita del espectro de su antiguo socio, Jacob Marley, hace desfilar ante Scrooge la vision de los espiritus de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras intentando conmover su corazon. Algo va a cambiar. Charles Dickens (1812 1870) fue un famoso novelista ingles, uno de los mas conocidos de la literatura universal, y el principal de la era victoriana. Fue maestro del genero narrativo, al que imprimio ciertas dosis de humor e ironia, practicando a la vez una aguda critica social. En su obra destacan las descripciones de gente y lugares, tanto reales como imaginarios.

Este ebook presenta "Grandes Esperanzas", con un índice dinámico y detallado. Es considerada como una de sus más grandes y sofisticadas novelas, así como también una de las más populares, siendo esta adaptada a obras teatrales y cinematograficas. La historia puede tambien ser considerada como una semi-autobiografia de Dickens, al igual que muchas de sus obras, en la cual mezcla sus experiencias de vidas con su entorno social. La novela narra la historia del huerfano Pip, quien describe su vida desde su niñez hasta su madurez tratando de convertirse en un hombre de nobleza a lo largo de su vida. Vive con su hermana y su cuñado, a quien ayuda en su taller de herreria. Cuando la rica Miss Havisham requiere a Pip como acompañante de ella y de su hija, el joven se dara cuenta de las penurias de su clase social y deseara subir posiciones en el escalafon social. Pip recibira entonces la visita de un abogado de Londres, quien le informara que un benefactor anonimo le quiere convertir en un caballero. Pip descubrira que el valor de la amistad y de la moral no se puede comprar con dinero. La trama de la historia toma lugar desde la vispera de Navidad de 1812, cuando el protagonista tiene solo siete años de edad, hasta el invierno de 1840.Charles Dickens (1812-1870) fue un destacado escritor y novelista ingles, uno de los mas conocidos de la literatura universal, y el mas sobresaliente de la era victoriana. Fue maestro del genero narrativo, al que imprimio ciertas dosis de humor e ironia, practicando a la vez una aguda critica social.

It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors prisonsin which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the authors own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens other critiques in this particular novel concern the social safety net: industry and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury (as figured in the fictional "Circumlocution Office"); and the separation of people based on the lack of interaction between the classes.

This edition includes 15 Classics Books+ 15 Audiobooks Links and an Active TOC ,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.This book contains 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

Novela corta de carácter realista-gótica, escrita por el británico Charles Dickens en 1843. En ella se habla del relato de cómo una persona mala y huraña puede cambiar su actitud mediante la navidad.

One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickenss great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creationthrough the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikesof the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its authors most loved works. This edition reprints the original Everymans introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Editorial Backlist. Kent, Inglaterra, finales del siglo XIX. El huérfano Pip vive una existencia humilde con su hermana y su cuñado, a quien ayuda en su taller de herrería. Cuando la rica Miss Havisham requiere a Pip como acompañante de ella y de su bella hija, el joven se dara cuenta de las penurias de su clase social y deseara cada vez con mas fuerza subir posiciones en el escalafon social.

Classic / British English (Available May 2008) This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men - one French, one English, but very similar in appearance - are in love with the same woman. The three of them, like the people of France, are faced with the dangers of life at a time when the guillotine never rests

Un Dickens inédito en español: un estupendo correlato femenino del señor Pickwick que, según Chesterton, habría podido ser «una dignísima señora Pickwick».En 1858, una pequeña desavenencia con los ed

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.

A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded, however, and he must return home penniless.