Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

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 a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age...

Based in part on the author's own life, David Copperfield is the epic story of a young man's journey of self-discovery - from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to his vocation as a successful novelist.

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical...

Barnaby Rudge is a young innocent simpleton who is devoted to his talkative raven, Grip. When he gets caught up in the mayhem of the Gordon riots and a mysterious unsolved murder, his life is put in jeopardy....

Charles Dickens wrote this book for his own children hoping to help them bye and bye, to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject. The history covers the period between 50 BC and...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the...

Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a little club, called Master Humphrey's...

The SoTo publishing house, founded in 2014, was in the beginning an Imprint publisher only. During the years it was shown that the readers are still preferring the classics of history of literature....

In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the...

Throughout his lifetime, Charles Dickens produced several works of fiction and non-fiction in collaboration with his friend and fellow writer, Wilkie Collins. This fictionalized account of a walking tour...

Included in this work are: A Christmas Carol by Dickens, The Christmas Babe by Sangster, A Western Christmas by Corning, Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Bacheller, Angela's Christmas by Schayer, The First...

Though best known for his heartwarming holiday tales and sweeping social novels such as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was always willing to experiment...

In this charming series of short stories from Victorian author nonpareil Charles Dickens, four pairs of lovebirds offer up a detailed account of their courtships. There's just one catch — none of the...

"A Christmas Carol" is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic....

"A Christmas tree" is a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

« Un chant de Noël » (« A Christmas Carol »), également publié en français sous les titres « Cantique de Noël », « Chanson de Noël » ou « Conte de Noël », est le premier et le plus célèbre des contes...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It tells the tale of...

A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer...

Hard Times is Charles Dickens's tenth novel that has been considered most seriously by literary critics and historians. It concentrates on the portrayal of the English society of the nineteenth century...

Der beliebte Jugendklassiker von Charles Dickens! Im England der Industrialisierung wird David Copperfield geboren. Sein Leben wird vom Tag seiner Geburt aufgezeichnet - leidvoll, ergreifend, spannend,...

Charles Dickens is the greatest writer of the Victorian era who became the classic of English literature while still being alive. This book contains the cream of author's creations. Here can be found...

Mit 31 Illustrationen Dickens' "Dombey und Sohn" ist die düster-witzige Geschichte über den Kampf ums Glück zweier Geschwister, die zeitlebens immer im Schatten des stolzen Vaters stehen. Für Paul Dombey...

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation...

La piccola Dorrit fu scritto da Dickens fra il 1855 e il 1857 e pubblicato in fascicoli mensili. Il romanzo è diviso in due libri: Povertà, in cui si parla delle misere condizioni della famiglia Dorrit,...

«Bleak House» was first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853, and is considered to be one of Dickens' finest novels, containing vast, complex and engaging arrays of characters and...

Dickens originally intended Great Expectations to be twice as long, but constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Round limited the novel's length. The novel is collected and dense, with a...

La collana “Coffeebook” nasce idealmente con il preciso intento di voler offrire la lettura di un classico della letteratura al prezzo di un solo caffè. Racconto di due città (A Tale of Two Cities) è...

Romanzo che narra la vita dei due attempati operai, Stephen e Rachael, fatta di sofferenze e impotente ribellione caratteristica della rivoluzione industriale. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five “Christmas Books”; However, this novel was less known than his other novels. The...