Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into...

Un soir, un vieux Londonien s'entend prier par une jolie petite fille de lui indiquer le chemin d'une rue située loin, très loin... II y conduit l'enfant et fait ainsi la connaissance du grand-père de...

Oliver Twist est un orphelin qui grandit dans la misère d'un hospice de l'Angleterre victorienne. Il se lie d'amitié avec un jeune voleur qui l'introduit dans le monde des pickpockets. Arrêté, puis innocenté...

Walter Wilding, riche négociant en vin, mène une vie heureuse auprès de sa mère, à qui il doit sa fortune et sa réussite sociale. A la mort de celle-ci, la découverte d'un terrible secret va bouleverser...

Les Temps difficiles, ce sont les débuts de la révolution industrielle qui transforme l'aimable campagne anglaise en un pandémonium d'usines, de canaux, d'installations minières, de fabriques, d'entrepôts,...

Oliver Twist est un orphelin qui grandit dans la misère d'un hospice de l'Angleterre victorienne. Il se lie d'amitié avec un jeune voleur qui l'introduit dans le monde des pickpockets. Arrêté, puis innocenté...

I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their...

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on,...

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...

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge...

Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything...

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Slechte Tijden is de tiende roman van Charles Dickens, voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1854. Het boek geeft een overzicht van de Engelse samenleving en hekelt de sociale en economische omstandigheden van...

David Copperfield is een roman in het bildungsroman-genre van Charles Dickens, verteld door de gelijknamige David Copperfield, waarin hij zijn avonturen beschrijft tijdens zijn reis van kindertijd tot...

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Beloved in Christmases past, and sure to remain a favorite into Christmases of the future, Dickens’ popular holiday tale is the perfect Christmas present. The uplifting tale follows the mysterious and...

No home library is complete without the classics! Great Expectations is a keepsake to be read and treasured.One of the most popular novelists ever, Charles Dickens wrote about what he saw in 19th century...

'Christmas is the perfect time to share the magic of reading with your family and Scrooge's journey to redemption is still as thrilling, moving and joyous over 175 years after it was written. This has...

Mr Gradgrind est un homme éminemment " pratique ", qui ne connaît dans la vie que les faits, rien que les faits. Il a fondé une école où l'on enseigne à lire et à écrire, mais surtout à compter. Il se...

Un matin de Noël, la joyeuse troupe des " Picwickiens ", aimables gentlemen partis au hasard des campagnes anglaises pour rendre compte de leurs " explorations " aux correspondants de leur club, se prépare...

Esther Summerson, modeste orpheline, a d'abord été recueillie par sa tante, puis par le notable John Jarndyce, propriétaire de Bleak House, qu'elle croit être son père. En réalité, elle est la fille d'un...

Esther Summerson, modeste orpheline, a d'abord été recueillie par sa tante, puis par le notable John Jarndyce, propriétaire de Bleak House, qu'elle croit être son père. En réalité, elle est la fille d'un...

"No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me."Let the character of The Uncommercial Traveller take you on a journal through Britain,...

Near the English colony of Belize, a silver mine is attacked by pirates. They murder a number of the British colonist and take the rest hostage. When all hope seems lost, the colonists' survival is suddenly...

"The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree."In Tom Tiddlers Ground – the name of an ancient children's game – Dickens...

"Minerva House ... was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing."In...

"The total number of legs belonging to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool legs in their houses...

"Once upon a time, and of course it was in the Golden Age, and I hope you may know when that was, for I am sure I don't, though I have tried hard to find out, there lived in a rich and fertile country,...

"Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy, –they do, thank God!"In this follow-up to Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, in which Mrs. Lirriper took in lodgers to make...