Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps...

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward...

This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication. [1836-1837] The Pickwick Papers [1837-1839] Oliver Twist [1838-1839] Nicholas Nickleby...

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge...

"What Christmas is as we Grow Older" is a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

The premier novel of the French Revolution, by England's greatest author Set against the bloodthirsty backdrop of revolutionary France, this monumental saga—one of the most famous works in all of literature—is...

A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system Bleak House is one of Charles Dicken's most multifaceted novels. Bleak House deals with a multiplicity of characters,...

Il romanzo venne pubblicato nel 1840 sul settimanale Master Humphrey's Clock (in italiano L'orologio di mastro Humphrey), fondato da Dickens nello stesso anno. Il settimanale non ebbe molto successo e...

Novel set between London and Paris, which portrays the brutal response of the people demoralized towards the French aristocracy, which will lead to the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror.

Le avventure di Nicholas Nickleby è il terzo romanzo di Charles Dickens, pubblicato originariamente a puntate fra il 1838 e il 1839. La storia è degna degli intrecci e delle vicende umane, tipiche della...

I romanzi "Oliver Twist" (1837-38) e "Nicholas Nickleby" (1838-39) consacrarono Charles Dickens all'attenzione del grande pubblico e della critica. Le due opere si legano allo scenario del primo industrialismo...

Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school...

The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the...

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...

David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850. Its full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David...

Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features...

Time and time again, Victorian literary luminary Charles Dickens gravitated to themes and fictional frameworks that allowed him to explore the diversity of humanity. That's the concept at the heart of...

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. Il Cantico di Natale (A Christmas Carol: A Goblin...

David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast...

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Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company, Paul Dombey, who dreams of having a son to carry on the family business. It deals with themes such as marriage...

Following the untimely death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby, despite his young age and inexperience, is forced to find a way to earn money to grant the sustenance of the whole family.

William Dorrit è un distinto signore che, governando male i propri affari, finisce nell'impossibilità di saldare i propri debiti. Quando è già padre di due figli, Edward e Fanny, viene incarcerato nella...

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast,...

Hard Times For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and...

Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features...

That Her Most Gracious Majesty, Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, did, on the 23rd day of November last past, declare and pronounce...

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is...

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise. It follows the travels of Mr Pickwick and...

While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted some of his creative energies to verse. At turns sentimental, melancholy,...