Charles Dickens - Libros y biografía

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop, an enchanting shop of odds and ends. Desperate to make a better life for his Nell, Grandfather secretly gambles...

This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed "Pickwick Papers." There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous...

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...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present...

Little Dorrit grows up in the Marshalsea debtor's prison, where her father has been imprisoned ever since her birth. When Mr Dorrit's debt is excused, he is anxious to forget his inglorious past and be...

Craving some feel-good fiction? Curl up with Doctor Marigold, a heartwarming tale from the pen of beloved author Charles Dickens. The story follows the tragedies and triumphs of a street vendor who loses...

Charles Dickens - 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,...

Pip, orphelin élevé par une soeur revêche, vit rongé par la honte: celle d'être à la charge de son beau-père, le forgeron Joe Garnery - celle d'avoir aidé, dans les marais, un forçat évadé, Magwitch,...

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...

A che età ci si può innamorare al punto di lasciare tutto quello che si ha? Anche a 9 anni, come fa Harry Walmers, protagonista di questo racconto di Charles Dickens che vi farà commuovere, sorridere...

Cantico di Natale (1843) è un romanzo breve di genere fantastico. L'opera, ambientata a Londra, narra della conversione dell'anziano e avaro finanziere Ebenezer Scrooge visitato nella notte di Natale...

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...

"Mugby Junction"is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas...

"A Christmas Carol" is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. "Carol" tells...

THERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child, too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long....

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz," was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English languages greatest...

Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himself, though his dreams...

I fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up. But not only was there no Constable there, but no discovery had yet been made of the robbery. Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy...

“The Trial of William Tinkling” Written by Himself at the Age of 8 Years is a popular book by Charles Dickens written in the 1860’s. Young William Tinkling is the editor of a magazine. He and Nettie Ashford...

It's not Christmas without “A Christmas Carol”! Beautifully Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella...

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. La bottega dell'antiquario (titolo originale The...

Like most of Charles Dickens' other works, HARD TIMES is a social commentary on mid-19th century England. Set in the fictional English industrial city of Coketown, HARD TIMES examines the lives of workers...

This is one of the most uplifting of Dickens’s novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels...

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Christmas Carol - with the original illustrations by John Leech" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Christmas Carol is a...

'Canto di Natale' (A Christmas Carol) è uno dei racconti più celebri di Dickens e uno dei più famosi dedicati a quella che è la ricorrenza dei buoni sentimenti per eccellenza: il Natale. Buoni sentimenti...

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious...

There was once a King, and he had a Queen; and he was the manliest of his sex, and she was the loveliest of hers. The King was, in his private profession, Under Government. The Queen’s father had been...

From The Pen Of Lieutenant Colonel Robin Redforth, Aged Nine – but in reality written by Charles Dickens as book III of IV in a series titled a Holiday Romance. The subject of our present narrative,...

'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd...

Nell Trent e seu avô moram em um apartamento em cima da Velha Loja de Curiosidades – a loja do avô e o bem precioso dos dois. Por muitos anos, Nell e seu avô vivem felizes. Kit, o funcionário da loja,...