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On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounter. Conducted by Charles Dickens and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contributors, The Haunted House examines quintessentially Victorian themes-sex and longing, nostalgia and loss-in ways that continue to resonate today. Ingeniously conceived and written, and spiked with flashes of Dickensian humor, this volume is a strange and sheer delight.

Charles DickensDickens Christmas Books, in Large Print, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol is the first and most popular in a series of five novels that Charles Dickens wrote for the Christmas season. This LARGE PRINT edition is designed in 14-point Century Schoolbook for easy reading and includes an original introduction as well as a bonus essay (A Christmas Tree). The familiar story of A Christmas Carol, about Ebenezer Scrooge and the three spirits who haunt him, has brought a healing touch to generations of readers. Despite many film and TV adaptations, the Dickens original remains the most powerful telling of this memorable tale.

What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens's famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, the celebrated annotator of The Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has now prepared a sumptuous new edition of the Dickens classic. This latest contribution to the Norton annotated series delves into the engrossing history of the book's publication, when it first captivated Victorian England. This is the first edition to combine the original text of 1843 with Dickens's Public Reading text, which had its world premiere in America in 1867 and has not been reprinted in nearly a century. Also included are rare photographs as well as the original Leech wood engravings and hand-colored etchings. These are supplemented by other contemporary illustrations by George Cruikshank, Gustave Doré, John Tenniel, and "Phiz." The Annotated Christmas Carol will be a literary feast for the whole family for generations.

"He prentendido que, en este relato fantástico, los espectros nazcan de una idea que no ponga malhumorados a los lectores consigo mismos, ni con otras personas, ni con la época navideña, ni conmigo. Desearia que este libro hechizase amablemente sus hogares y que nadie quisiera abandonar su lectura" Charles Dickens

Desde su publicación por entregas entre 1849 y 1850, David Cooperfield, el "hijo favorito" de su autor, no ha dejado más que una estela de admiración, alegría y gratitud. Para Swinburne era "una obra maestra suprema". Henry James recordaba que de niño se escondía debajo de una mesa para oír a su madre leer las entregas en voz alta. Dostoievski la leyó en su prisión en Siberia. Tolstói la consideraba el mayor hallazgo de Dickens, y el capítulo de la tempestad, el patrón por el que debería juzgarse toda obra de ficción. Fue la novela favorita de Sigmund Freud. Kafka la imitó en Amerika y Joyce la parodió en Ulises. Para Cesare Pavese, "en estas páginas inolvidables cada uno de nosotros (no se me ocurre elogio mayor) vuelve a encontrar su propia experiencia secreta". El lector tiene ahora la ocasión de recuperar esa experiencia secreta gracias a la nueva y excelente traducción de Marta Solís, la primera en español en más de cincuenta años de una obra clave, sin ningún género de dudas, de la literatura universal.

Contains many Dickensian themes - poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of adversity. This book features some of the characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.

Tiempos difíciles es o, mejor dicho, fue una de las novelas menos conocidas de Charles Dickens. Con el tiempo, esta narración ha ido atrayendo cada vez más el interés de los lectores y de los críticos. Quizá haya ocurrido esto no tanto por el argumento, un argumento que exhibe no pocos rasgos de la literatura de folletín, sino por las ideas que se discuten en ella. La obra trata de la historia de una familia y trata, sobre todo, de una forma más general, de cómo una filosofía, la filosofía utilitarista, moldea las conductas de las personas.

Featuring OLIVER TWIST, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND and NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, this is the definitive audio collection of Dickens' best loved works.

This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trappe

Este volumen de la Bibliotheca Homo Legens incluye el texto original inglés de la primera edición (Chapman & Hall, 1843) así como las ilustraciones que John Leech realizó bajo supervisión de Dick

His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London. Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?