Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

Everybody hates the refreshment room at the junction, it's terrible. But the staff is convinced that they're running a great operation. When their boss returns from abroad to report that in French refreshment...

There could only ever be three reasons as to why you find yourself reading this text. 1: You finished and liked part 1 and want to continue the story.2: The hummus on your finger brought your here by...

"He would make a lovely corpse."Martin Chuzzlewit is an old rich man with a handful of relatives just waiting for him to die so they can inherit his money. But old Chuzzlewit has no intention of kicking...

"The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain" is one of Dickens' Christmas-time novellas, written in the vein of his most popular one, "A Christmas Carol". Professor Redlaw is brooding over his past misery...

A rich misanthropic man with no friends die and leaves all his money to his estranged son, John Harmon, who lives abroad. But Harmon can only inherit the money on the condition that he marries a woman...

"To have a Cricket on the Hearth, is the luckiest thing in all the world!"... Or is it?On the hearth in the home of the Peerybingle family sits a little cricket who acts as their protector. When everything...

'The Old Curiosity Shop' is one of Charles Dickens' most beloved novels about a poor orphan girl, Nell, and her caring grandfather. In an attempt to improve Nell's life, her grandfather accepts a loan...

One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to...

"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having...

We hear it all the time - Charles Dickens invented what we think of as a traditional Christmas. In this collection of short stories, he proves this fact. Vivid images of plum puddings, snow-blanketed...

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...

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...

Family Christmas gatherings are always very... interesting.A wedding, sports on ice, Sexton stealing Goblins, merry voices carolling and jolly faces. The Pickwickians' Christmas trip to the Manor Farm...

'Like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers and by himself as spectator.'Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens.In 1844 Charles Dickens took a break...

'Pearl-Fishing – Second Series' is a second collection of short stories written by the renowned author of 'Great Expectations', Charles Dickens. First published in 'Household Words', Pearl-Fishing – Second...

Charles Dickens' 'The Lamplighter' is a short story that will take the reader on a comical adventure bringing together the philosopher's stone, some fortune-telling stars, an eccentric astronomer, and...

Anyone who has read Dickens' novels such as 'Oliver Twist' will know that the writer was a moralist, satirist, and social reformer, and this volume of non-fiction essays brings together some of the writer's...

Charles Dickens is renowned as one of the best writers of the Victorian era, and his after-dinner speeches were very much in demand during his lifetime. Dickens spoke on public occasions as a literature...

The majority of the poems in this collection 'The Poems and Verses' are a classic collection of poetic works by Charles Dickens. They are brought together in this anthology after appearing in Dickens'...

Charles Dickens' 'Children Stories' is a collection of tales for kids from one of history's finest storytellers. In this wonderful anthology, children are introduced to characters who also appear in Dickens'...

'The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it.'"Contributions to 'All the Year Round'" by Charles Dickens is a collection of short stories originally published in 'All the...

'Pearl-Fishing – First Series' by Charles Dickens is a collection of short stories which were first published in 'Household Words'. Featuring titles such as 'Loaded Dice', 'My Wonderful Adventures in...

"If you were to go up in a balloon, you would make for heaven; and if you were to dive into the depths of the earth, nothing short of the other place would content you."These are the words of characters...

'Bardell v. Pickwick' is an episode from Charles Dickens' classic novel, 'The Pickwick Papers'. Reminiscent of a John Grisham novel, this work by Charles Dickens is packed full of broken marriage promises,...

A spooky house full of ghosts, a brother and sister as odd as the house itself, bizarre sounds and goings-on in the dark of the night. Who would want to live here?John and his sister Patty, that's who....

"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...

"Bleak House" is a long and complex novel by Dickens, exploring the machinations of the English legal system. At the centre of its narrative stands the "Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce" lawsuit, and all the characters...

It is a wonder Charlie ever leaves home considering how many disastrous stays at inns and hotels he has had. This time around, though, his leaving is with good reason. His sweetheart and his best friend...

"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,...