Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

The lives of the old mill workers, Stephen and Rachael, made of suffering and impotent rebellion, characteristic of the Industrial Revolution.

A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming...

Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood....

Charles Dickens - Le Grillon du foyer (titre original : The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home) est une nouvelle de Charles Dickens parue le 20 decembre 1845, avec des illustrations de Daniel...

Charles Dickens - De beaux contes, sous forme de lhistoire de : Lhistoire du parent pauvre - Lhistoire de lenfant - Lhistoire de quelquun ou La legende des deux rivieres - Lhistoire de la vieille marie...

L'opera fu scritta tra il 1855 e il giugno 1857 e pubblicato in fascicoli mensili (come quasi tutte le opere dell'autore) dal 1º dicembre 1855 al 1857. Esso è diviso in due libri: Povertà, in cui si parla...

Another entrant in his astoundingly popular series of Christmas parables, Dickens revisits many of the themes and plot devices he first explored in A Christmas Carol in The Haunted Man and the Ghost's...

Tired of the materialistic cynicism and cheerless hustle and bustle that seem to taint the holiday season these days? Hearken back to a simpler time and celebrate the true virtues of the season with this...

"A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas" (wörtlich "Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa", oder "Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest’", deutsch meist "Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte") ist eine...

Originally published in 1843, Charles Dickens' work 'A Christmas Carol'' (in full "A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas") is probably his most well-known and beloved piece. The...

Charles Dickens' timeless classic, brought to life in a joyous new adaptation by Jack Thorne.On a bitter Christmas Eve night a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past,...

Christmas?! What a load of Humbug. Mistletoe and Wine just don't do it for Scrooge; he's a workaholic miser with an attitude problem. If he doesn't change his ways, he'll end up with no friends and Tiny...

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO Ne La battaglia della vita, inizialmente pubblicata all’interno della raccolta Canti di Natale, la storia si sviluppa su quello che era stato un tempo un vero luogo di scontro,...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843.The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Carol tells the story...

It's Christmas Eve. As the cold, bleak night draws in, the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirit of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment for a...

Things are going to be different. Very different...1838, London. Jacob Marley is dead. And so is Ebenezer Scrooge…In this reinvention of the timeless classic, Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has...

One ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge gets the fright of his life, discovers the truth about himself, and learns to love his neighbour.This adaptation by David Edgar of...

Joseph Grimaldi (1778 - 1837), one of the greatest English clowns and pantomimes of all time, was born in London to an Italian ballet-master and a dancer in the theatre's corps-de-ballet. The death of...

Novella that tells the story of transformation of the bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

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"A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens Household Words...

Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live happily in an English village with their two servants, Clemency Newcome and Ben Britain, and their good-natured widower father Dr Jeddler. Dr Jeddler is a man whose...

'Bah,'said Scrooge, 'Humbug.' But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of life: 'I am as...

Novella that tells the story of transformation of the bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Coming-of-age novel that depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip, who suddenly finds himself owning a large sum of money, given by a mysterious benefactor that will allow him...

A Christmas Carol, one of the Charles Dickens' books most loved, was published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of old Ebenezer Scrooge (miserable, bitter old man without...

The story traces the life and the formation of David Copperfield. The sad and unfortunate childhood, the growth under the wing of Aunt Betsey to the maturity.

'Marley was dead to begin with.' So begins one of the best-loved and famous Christmas stories that has been filmed, inspired musicals, and plays, and still entertains with a timeless story of transformation...