Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel and his penultimate (completed) novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It...

Der Erfinder des modernen Clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, gelangte zu Weltruhm als Liebling von König und Volk. Sein Leben wird von Charles Dickens hier so lebendig beschrieben, zeigt aber auch Seiten hinter...

Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a "cheap-jack" who hawks sundries from a traveling cart he inhabits with his wife and his daughter Sophy. The mother beats Sophy, but Marigold,...

È la Vigilia di Natale e il vecchio, misero e avarissimo Scrooge concede, in modo molto riluttante, la giornata successiva libera al proprio impiegato: il Natale non è altro che un giorno rubato al lavoro,...

Terzo romanzo di Charles Dickens e fu come di consuetudine pubblicato inizialmente a puntate a partire dall'aprile 1839. Ambientato tra Londra e Portsmouth, con il tono critico tipico della sua produzione...

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from...

Dieses Buch vereint die Geschichten "Der Behexte und der Pakt mit dem Geiste", "Die Silvesterglocken" und "Auf der Walstatt des Lebens". Es sind phantastische Geschichten, die sich besonders für eine...

Pip est un jeune garçon rêveur et sensible. Élevé par une soeur revêche et un beau-frère d'une nature excellente mais tenu sous la coupe de cette maîtresse femme, il aime à traîner au cimetière où sont...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian time. Some of the world´s best-known fictional characters were created by him, and his...

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised...

"David Copperfield" è l'ottavo romanzo scritto da Charles Dickens, pubblicato per la prima volta mensilmente su rivista tra il 1849 e il 1850. Molti degli elementi del romanzo si ispirano ad eventi della...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's...

David Copperfield mène une vie heureuse auprès de sa jeune mère, qui est veuve, et de l'étrange Mme Peggotty. Mais cette existence est interrompue par le mariage de sa mère avec M.Murdstone, homme cruel...

Pip est un jeune garçon rêveur et sensible. Élevé par une soeur revêche et un beau-frère d'une nature excellente mais tenu sous la coupe de cette maîtresse femme, il aime à traîner au cimetière où sont...

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...

An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty...

"David Copperfield", (Originaltitel "David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to...

I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high...

Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it...

The kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French...

"Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten" (Originaltitel: "A Tale of Two Cities") ist ein historischer Roman von Charles Dickens. Geschrieben 1859, ist das Buch mit über 200 Millionen verkauften Ausgaben das...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long...

Bleak House in half the timeEsther Summerson finds herself caught up in the frustrations of a seemingly unending law-case involving her generous guardian Mr Jarndyce and her wards Ada and Richard.Brought...

Compact editions - David Copperfield in half the time.David Copperfield's happy childhood is abruptly ended by his mother's remarriage to Mr Murdstone. After enduring the misery of Salem House Academy...

Oliver Twist is the classic tale of a poor orphan boy who runs away from an abusive master, only to fall in with thieves and robbers on the cruel streets of 19th-century London. Eventually Oliver discovers...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is abildungsroman, or a coming-of-age...

There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being...