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This carefully crafted ebook: "Dickens Christmas Stories (20 original stories as published between the years 1850 and 1867 in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others in Dickens own Magazines)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Not to be confused with Dickens well known Christmas Tales (A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man) this eBook presents a collection of 20 short stories, published in the Christmas edition of Dickens weekly magazines "Household Words" and its successor, "All the Year Round", between the years 1850 and 1867. Charles Dickens was the publisher and editor of, and a major contributor to these magazines. He often invited other authors to contribute with stories or to write stories in collaboration with himself. Content: - A Christmas Tree - What Christmas Is As We Grow Older - The Poor Relations Story - The Childs Story - The Schoolboys Story - Nobodys Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly-Tree - The Wreck of the Golden Mary - The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going Into Society - The Haunted House - A Message From the Sea - Tom Tiddles Ground - Somebodys Luggage - Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings - Mrs. Lirripers Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Tale of Two Cities + Great Expectations (2 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are two much-loved novels by Charles Dickens. Tale of Two Cities is is a novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The main characters Doctor Alexandre Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton are all recalled to life, or resurrected, in different ways as turmoil erupts. Great Expectations centers around a poor young man by the name of Pip, who is given the chance to make himself a gentleman by a mysterious benefactor. Great Expectations offers a fascinating view of the differences between classes during the Victorian era, as well as a great sense of comedy and pathos. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 1812 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the worlds most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

A Childs Dream of a Star Charles Dickens - THERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of GOD who made the lovely world.They used to say to one another, sometimes, Supposing all the children upon earth were to die, would the flowers, and the water, and the sky be sorry? They believed they would be sorry. For, said they, the buds are the children of the flowers, and the little playful streams that gambol down the hill-sides are the children of the water; and the smallest bright specks playing at hide and seek in the sky all night, must surely be the children of the stars; and they would all be grieved to see their playmates, the children of men, no more.This is a short story about a brother and sister who used to wonder about the stars all day long. On an ordinary day, one clear, shining star would appear before the rest, and every night they watched for it, standing hand in hand at a window. But while she was still very young, the sister died, breaking the little boys heart. One day, when the star made long rays down toward him, he saw his sisters angel through his tears. But, throughout his life, his sisters angel told him it was not time to join her. He lived a long, full life, and it was not until the old man died was he able to rejoin his sister.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Unabridged with the Original Illustrations by George Cruikshank)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Adventures of Oliver Twist, first published in 1838, is a story written by Charles Dickens. Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist grows up under the loveless, relentless watch of a workhouse. He runs away with hopes for a better life in London and finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets, headed by Fagin. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. He is rescued by Mr. Brownlow but the gang kidnap him back. But Oliver discovers the identity of his parents and the gang is exposed. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 1812 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the worlds most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

Este ebook presenta "El grillo del hogar" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El Grillo del Hogar fue escrito por Charles Dickens en 1845 y publicado originalmente en el volumen de Cuentos Navideños. En este relato es posible encontrar como elemento principal un grillo que se transforma en hadas, dicho personaje habita en el hogar de la familia Peerybingle y forma parte de una historia que transcurre en tres dias y se desarrolla en el mismo numero de cantos. Dickens muestra con el humor usual lo dificil que podia ser la vida para los ingleses de baja situacion economica en el siglo XIX, y como a pesar de la frugalidad lograban aferrarse a la posibilidad de ser felices. Charles Dickens (1812 1870) fue un famoso novelista ingles y uno de los mas conocidos de la literatura universal, quien supo manejar con maestria el genero narrativo, el humor, el sentimiento tragico de la vida, la ironia, con una aguda y algida critica social asi como las descripciones de gentes y lugares, tanto reales como imaginarios.

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Tale of Two Cities + Great Expectations (2 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are two much-loved novels by Charles Dickens. Tale of Two Cities is is a novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The main characters Doctor Alexandre Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton are all recalled to life, or resurrected, in different ways as turmoil erupts. Great Expectations centers around a poor young man by the name of Pip, who is given the chance to make himself a gentleman by a mysterious benefactor. Great Expectations offers a fascinating view of the differences between classes during the Victorian era, as well as a great sense of comedy and pathos. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 1812 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the worlds most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

Bleak HouseByCharles DickensCHAPTER IIn ChanceryLondon. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincolns Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakesgone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one anothers umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their timeas the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look.

The Old Curiosity ShopByCharles DickensCHAPTER 1Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.I have fallen insensibly into this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occupations of those who fill the streets. The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossyis it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martins Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the childs step from the mans, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seekerthink of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream oflife that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toil at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast seawhere some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away ones life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyedand where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last nights debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy! Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.But my present purpose is no...

La pequeña Dorrit, una de las novelas clásicas de Charles Dickens (1812-1870) cuenta la historia de una joven cuyo padre es encarcelado por deudas durante años en la prisión de Marshalea; de hecho, la propia Amy Dorrit nace en la prision y crece alli, aunque puede abandonarla cuando lo decide. Por otro lado, atendemos a los avatares de Arthur Clennam, un hombre que se ha dedicado al negocio familiar en el extranjero y que regresa a Londres con el proposito de cambiar por completo de vida. Arthur conoce a Amy Dorrit en casa de su madre, que la ha contratado como costurera, y conoce asi la desgraciada historia de la muchacha. Pronto ambos personajes entenderan que sus vidas tienen muchos puntos en comun, y la suerte de ambos cambiara conforme vayan desarrollandose los acontecimientos. La pequeña Dorrit es una novela profusa en ideas y personajes, y que hara las delicias de cualquier amante de Dickens. Aunque no tan conocida como otras grandes obras del maestro ingles, se ha de contar, sin duda, entre los mejores frutos de su pluma. En esta edicion se presenta una cuidada edicion ilustrada, adaptada al publico mas joven, y para los adultos que quieran revisitar las vicisitudes de la sociedad victoriana con sus luces y sombras, que tan bien retrato Dickens, de una manera rapida y amena.

Entre 1860 y el final de su vida, en 1870, Dickens publicó, en un semanario que él mismo fundó, las crónicas de El viajero sin propósito, de las que aquí se presenta una cuidada selección, traducidas por primera vez al castellano. Los textos que agrupa, entre la cronica y el relato, tienen en comun el viaje como hilo conductor, y son, al mismo tiempo, paginas autobiograficas, testimonio de una epoca y un ejercicio periodistico de primer nivel. Para muchos expertos en Dickens, estas paginas son indisociables de su mejor produccion.Dickens, gran viajero, gran paseante y excepcional observador, gustaba de vagabundear sin rumbo fijo, de noche y de dia, por los muelles del puerto o los suburbios de Londres o Paris. Esa impronta de caminante urbano, capaz de retratar la variedad panoramica y la intensidad de la vida de la ciudad, marca estas paginas. Entre ellas encontramos el inconfundible humor de Dickens; como en Refrigerio para el viajero; obras maestras del periodismo, a un tiempo literario y de denuncia, como El cargamento del Gran Tasmania; relatos autobiograficos, como Historias de mi aya, o Dullborough Town; otros que nos llevan a Italia, Francia o Suiza Piezas literarias unicas que, para regocijo del lector, conjugan el habitual buen hacer de Dickens, con su erudicion y su ironia.

Con motivo del bicentenario del nacimiento de Charles Dickens, presentamos esta edición Grandes esperanzas, ilustrada por Ángel Mateo Charris. Traducción de Manuel Vallvé. El joven Pip es protagonista y narrador de una emotiva historia de iniciacion en la que hay lugar para el amor y los giros del destino. Es huerfano y vive con su hermana, una mujer irascible que, aunque presume de haber criado a Pip a mano, acostumbra a castigarlo con una vara con nombre propio. Su marido, un herrero bondadoso y debil de caracter, es el unico aliado con el que cuenta el muchacho. El primer hecho excepcional de la vida de Pip ocurre cuando un preso fugado le pide ayuda en mitad de la noche: necesita viveres, una lima y, por supuesto, discrecion absoluta. En caso contrario, el siniestro fugitivo esta dispuesto a arrancarle el corazon y el higado. No es sencillo digerir semejante amenaza y ademas guardar el secreto, pero en breve algo mantendra ocupada por completo la mente de Pip: conocera a la señorita Havisham, una anciana adinerada y excentrica que requerira la presencia de Pip como pasatiempo para su protegida, la pequeña Estella. Pese al desprecio que le profesa la arrogante muchacha, Pip queda prendado de ella y se hace a si mismo la promesa en convertirse en un caballero para ser digno de su amor. La oportunidad llega bajo la apariencia de un benefactor anonimo: alguien esta dispuesto a hacerse cargo de sus estudios y respaldar su ascenso social.

Este ebook presenta "David Copperfield", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. David Copperfield es una novela escrita por Charles Dickens, publicada por entregas en 1849 y como volumen único en 1850. El huerfano David Copperfield, despues de ser maltratado por su padrastro y por sus profesores, es obligado a trabajar, en condiciones infrahumanas, en un almacen de Londres. Sin embargo, su vida mejora considerablemente cuando este decide escapar e ir en busca de su tia Betsey. Gracias a ella, David podra ir a una buena escuela y hospedarse en casa de un afable abogado, Mr. Wickfield, cuya hija, Agnes, se convierte en una de sus mejoras amigas. Una vez que finaliza sus estudios, David, abogado en practicas, conoce a Dora, de quien se enamora apasionadamente y con la que acaba casandose. Pronto, David se dara cuenta de que Dora no era la mujer con la que el queria compartir su vida, y que es infeliz; cuando el esta resignado a asumir su error, Dora enferma y muere, no sin antes pedirle en su lecho de muerte a Agnes que se case con David. Finalmente, el deseo de Agnes se cumple, y David y Agnes seran muy felices juntos. Charles John Huffam 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. Utilizo en ocasiones el seudonimo Boz.

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La colección Bolsillo Everest ofrece una atractiva serie de títulos de gran éxito. Con esta colección pretendemos acercarnos al lector con obras tan conocidas de la literatura universal como David Copperfield, Dracula, Jane EyreEs la oportunidad de tener grandes obras en pequeño tamaño.... y, sin que ahora nadie me lo impidiera, permaneci a su lado, atareado, mientras todos los medios por recobrarlo estaban siendo probados; pero habia sido golpeado hasta la muerte por la ola atroz, y su generoso corazon estaba callado para siempre. Dickens narra en esta novela episodios de su propia vida desde su infancia hasta la edad adulta, personalizados en la figura de David o Trot, un muchacho que pasa por diferentes vicisitudes en la vida, desde los estudios en un internado, hasta la muerte de su madre y el despiadado trabajo en una fabrica del Londres del siglo XIX que le hace huir hasta encontrar a su tia Betsy.Texto en version integra, adaptado a las ultimas reglas gramaticales y ortograficas.

Ebook con un sumario dinámico:Confesión encontrada en una prisión de la época de Carlos IIEl armario viejoEl auxiliar de la parroquiaEl barón de GrogzwigEl guardavíaEl manuscrito de un locoEl presidente del juradoEl velo negroLa historia de los duendes que secuestraron a un enterradorLa historia de nadieLa visita del señor TestatorPara leer al atardecerEl cantico de NavidadBIOGRAFIA DE CARLOS DICKENSLa fortuna de un estudianteEl grillo del hogarDavid CopperfieldGrandes EsperanzasHistorias de FantasmasEl manuscrito de un locoLa historia del viajante de comercioLa historia de los duendes que secuestraron a un enterradorLa historia del tio del viajanteEl baron de GrogzwigUna confesion encontrada en una prision de la epoca de Carlos IIPara leer al atardecerJuicio por asesinatoFantasmas de NavidadLa novia del ahorcadoLa visita del señor TestadorLa casa hechizada.Los mortales de la casaEl fantasma de la habitacion del Amo B.Oliver TwistHistoria en dos ciudadesEl grillo del hogarCuento de NavidadHistoria de dos ciudadesBarnaby RudgeUltimo capituloOld Square, Lincolns InnSrta. Esther SummersonCasa Desolada - Vol. IIIntrusosLa narracion de EstherEl misterio de Edwin DroodHistoria de dos ciudadesLa pequeña DorritLa muerte del borrachoProceso por asesinatoSentimentalLos pickwickianos...Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, Inglaterra, 7 de febrero de 1812-Gads Hill Place, Inglaterra, 9 de junio de 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. En su obra destacan las descripciones de gente y lugares, tanto reales como imaginarios. En ocasiones, utilizo el seudonimo "Boz".

" 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, tension, 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 en cine y television.Traduccion de Pollux Hernuñez

Una ingeniosa novela, mezcla de ironía, realismo y misterio del gran maestro de la novela victoriana.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 herreria. 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. Pip recibira entonces la visita de un abogado de Londres, quien le informara que un benefactor anonimo le quiere convertir en un caballero. Sin embargo, Pip descubrira que el valor de la amistad y de la moral no se puede comprar con dinero. El corazon humano es un instrumento de muchas cuerdas; el perfecto conocedor de los hombres las sabe hacer vibrar todas, como un buen musico. Charles Dickens