Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

Le narrateur, durant une promenade, rencontre, près d'un tunnel, un signaleur du chemin de fer, homme instruit et consciencieux qui lui dit recevoir, avant des accidents sur la voie ferrée, la visite...

1775 : Lucie retrouve son père,le docteur Manette, injustement emprisonné pendant 18 ans à la Bastille. 1780 : Lucie Èpouse Charles Darnay qui avait été inculpé de haute trahison sur une dénonciation...

Bleak House By Charles Dickens CHAPTER I In Chancery London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets...

There happened to be on board the steamboat several gentlemen passengers, of the same stamp as Martin's New York friend Mr Bevan; and in their society he was cheerful and happy. They released him as well...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain or simply as The Haunted Man) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published...

Christmas is a time for family, friends, and loved ones to come together and celebrate the season. For some, it is also a time of reflection on the past year and preparations for the coming one. For Ebenezer...

« Or, ce que je veux, ce sont des faits. Enseignez des faits à ces garçons et à ces filles, rien que des faits. Les faits sont la seule chose dont on ait besoin ici-bas. Ne plantez pas autre chose et...

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...

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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...

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...

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, includes the original illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). A Story of the French Revolution. Originally published in the periodical...

Questo romanzo, secondo un sondaggio pubblicato nel 2012, è risultato il più venduto nel mondo. Oltre duecento milioni di copie nell'arco di un secolo e mezzo, ovvero da quando nella primavera del 1859...

Conto muito tenso e compacto, todo feito entre carris, cheio de barulhos de comboio, ocasos na desolada paisagem ferroviária, figuras vistas à distância das encostas. "O sinaleiro", publicado em 1866...

Em "As Vozes dos Sinos", Dickens denuncia as desigualdades sociais, no período da Revolução Industrial, chamando a atenção para os orfanatos imundos, os asilos e as prisões superlotadas, a miséria, a...

Numa pequena cidade de Inglaterra, uma jovem dá à luz um menino e morre em seguida. O pequeno órfão recebe o nome de Oliver Twist e vive os seus primeiros nove anos em instituições de caridade. Não suportando...

Pubblicato tra il 1860 e il 1861, è il secondo lavoro di Dickens scritto completamente in prima persona. Uscito inizialmente a puntate sulla rivista 'All the Year Round' di cui era direttore, è un romanzo...

Sappiamo tutto del Dickens autore di denuncia sociale, dello spietato e preciso cronista dell'Inghilterra stravolta per sempre dalla Rivoluzione Industriale. Meno nota invece è la sua produzione 'sovrannaturale',...

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", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted...

Racconto di due città (A Tale of Two Cities) è un romanzo storico di Charles Dickens del 1859. Insieme a Barnaby Rudge è l'unico romanzo storico scritto da Dickens. Il romanzo venne pubblicato sulla rivista...

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...

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...

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...

Drei Weihnachtsgeschichten erzählen von dem Zauber des Weihnachtfestes Dem Meistererzähler gelingt es, vom Zauber des Weihnachtsfestes zu berichten in drei seiner Geschichten, die er zu den Weihnachtsfesten...

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,...