Marley's ghost sends down three spirits to Scrooge: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. In these visions Scrooge sees his own joys and sorrows and those of the people around him. He witnesses the modest festivities of the poor Cratchit family and comes to realise that he not only has the power to be happy himself, but also to bring happiness to others. One of Dickens's most popular stories, A Christmas Carol continues to delight adults and children alike.
Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife's death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens's most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age.
After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back . . .
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn't like people. He really doesn't like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit--and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin's gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends - but can they protect him from people who rob and murder without mercy?
Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the French Revolution, Darnay, who has fled to London to escape the cruelty of the French nobility, must return to Paris to rescue his servant from death. But he endangers his own life and is captured. Carton may be able to help, but will his resemblance be enough to save Darnay's life? This title provides an enticing introduction by bestselling author, Roddy Doyle.
'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
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Charles DickensHard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen.
Este volumen, ricamente ilustrado con la obra de algunos de los más brillantes artistas de su tiempo (Edwin Landseer, John Leech, Richard Doyle o John Tenniel, entre otros) reúne los cuentos publicados entre las navidades de 1843 y las de 1848, es decir, Cancion de Navidad, Las campanas, El grillo del hogar, La batalla de la vida y El hechizado. Si Cancion de Navidad ha pasado a la historia como elcompendio del estilo dickensiano, marcado por el realismo, la recreacion de los sentimientos y el halito poetico que embellece sus descripciones, los otros relatos que entre 1843 y 1848 dedico a estas fiestas son igualmente estremecedores textos en los que se combinan con singular acierto el realismo con elementos de la novela gotica (el misterio, el horror, el milagro).
TEXTO EN CATALÁN .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 me
The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit--and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.
Oliver Twist es una novela que capta desde el primer momento la atención del lector y la mantiene hasta su última página. Una trama excelentemente urdida, personajes inolvidables, buenos y malvados, drama, tensión, amenazas y peligros, aventuras y peripecias, y un final inesperado y feliz son los ingredientes que hacen de ella una obra sin edad, objeto de numerosas adaptaciones y llevada al cine por Roman Polanski.
L’irresolt litigi judicial Jarndyce i Jarndyce ha consumit més de cent mil lliures en costes i les parts del plet, antics descendents dels litigants incials, ja fins i tot desconeixen els motius del
Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House nos trae esta cuidada edición de colección de una de las grandes obras maestras tardías de Charles Dickens. Un joven se encamina a Londres para aceptar una herencia paterna que, segun estipula el testamento, tan solo podra disfrutar si se casa con Bella Wilfer, una hermosa muchacha a la que nunca ha conocido. Poco antes, sin embargo, aparece flotando en el Tamesis un cadaver que la policia identifica con el joven heredero. Es el principio de una onda que afectara a toda la sociedad londinense. Una novela conclusa de Dickens, Nuestro amigo comun es para muchos criticos y escritores -Italo Calvino, por ejemplo- una obra maestra absoluta en la que el autor, mas pesimista que nunca, a las puertas de la muerte, demuestra todo el vigor de su prosa y de su imaginacion en un deslumbrante ejercicio de virtuosismo literario. Italo Calvino dijo..."Los comienzos de las novelas de Dickens suelen ser memorables, pero ninguno supera el primer capitulo de Nuestro amigo comun, penultima novela que escribio y ultima que termino. Llevados por la barca del pescador de cadaveres, nos parece entrar en el reverso del mundo."
