Charles, Dickens - Libros y biografía

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded." In this wonderful compilation of classic Charles Dickens stories, the adventures surrounding children...

"Their good humour and delight know no bounds - for it is a delightful morning, all blue over head, and nothing like a cloud in the whole sky."Under the pseudonym of Timothy Sparks, the then 24 year-old...

"Halloa! Below there!"Unable to sleep one cold winter's night, a gentleman wanders aimlessly around the countryside and comes across the dark mouth of a railway tunnel. There he spots an old signal-man,...

"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...

"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...

After beating up a little boy on Christmas Eve – as you do – Gabriel Grub, a grumpy and mean-spirited gravedigger, goes to dig a grave in the churchyard. His work is interrupted when goblins come by to...

"The couple who dote upon their children have usually a great many of them (...) The children are either the healthiest in all the world, or the most unfortunate in existence. In either case, they are...

"Remember to the last, that while there is life there is hope."Onboard the ship The Golden Mary we meet a dignified woman in black, a man who wants to try his luck in the gold rush in California, a mother...

"The silence was unbroken. I looked round, and the five couriers were gone: so noiselessly that the ghostly mountains might have absorbed them into its eternal snows."Thought recently married, the honeymoon...

When Mr. Julius Slinkton walks into Mr. Sampson's insurance office to fetch some forms for his friend, Sampson has a strange suspicion that something isn't quite right. And when Slinkton continues to...

Charles Dickens shared excessive interest in the machinations of the ghostly and the supernatural. Many of his ghost stories include a sense of justice or rational explanation in the end. "The Hanged...

"The good old times, the good old times ... what times they were!" Set during the Christmas period, 'The Chimes' is an affecting examination of social structure, hypocrisy, and emotional poverty. The...

"All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here."In 1842 Dickens sailed to America to observe The New World that held such fascination for the English. He went to magnificent landmarks like Niagara...

"Out-and-out young gentlemen may be divided into two classes – those who have something to do, and those who have nothing."In Sketches of Young Gentlemen Charles Dickens presents this list of types of...

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."Master Humphrey is an old, crippled man living in London. To combat...

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...

'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' is a sprawling adventure that follows young Nicholas' journey across England to defend his family's honour and regain their lost fortune. After the death...

When you hear Charles Dickens you most likely think 'please sir, can I have some more?' or imagine Mr Scrooge (or Scrooge Mcduck if you're feeling 90's nostalgic) snapping at Tiny Tim. That was not always...

Teenage angst and rebellion might feel like a modern phenomenon but, Bella and Edward, Ferris Bueller and Mean Girls couldn't have happened without 'Hard Times'. Family, work and rebellion are all at...

'Little Dorrit' is a highly personal novel by Charles Dickens that many critics state is one of his finest later works. The story revolves around Amy Dorrit, a kind-hearted young woman who resides in...

'Barnaby Rudge' is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, depicting the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 in England. It is a novel in which danger lurks around every corner, as the titular character...

"We count by changes and events within us. Not by years." Set in a small village, which stands on the site of a historic skirmish, "The Battle of Life" follows the romantic trials and tribulations of...

What to expect when you're reading "Great Expectations" may sound like a sequel to the American pregnancy bible "What to Expect When You're Expecting" (1984), but for new readers whose familiarity with...

'Dombey and Son' follows Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of a shipping firm who is frustrated by his lack of a male heir. His disappointment and frustration triggers his own financial and personal downfall...

Doctor Marigold is a traveling salesperson and a good man. But his wife beats their daughter Sophy and he is too weak-willed to do anything about it. When Sophy dies, Marigold is soon left with nothing....

"Society, taken in the lump, is all dwarfs (...) And when you've no more left to give, they'll laugh at you to your face..."A man sets up a circus in a respectable neighbourhood and draws an audience...

While on holiday, four children let their imaginations run wild and tell each other fantastical stories. They picture themselves married to one another, living at sea, having magic godmothers, and one...

"Mother had the gripe and clutch of poverty upon her face, upon her figure, and not least of all upon her voice."After a traumatic childhood spent locked in a cellar, the orphaned George Silverman embarks...