Charles Dickens. - Libros y biografía

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...

"TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and messages for people who...

Un soir de Noel, Scrooge, vieil homme daffaires avare et cupide, a une hallucination en rentrant chez lui : il voit le fantome de Jacob Marley, son associe decede des annees auparavant, dans le marteau...

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...

Charles Dickens - Grace a Mr Pickwick et a son club on se delecte des conventions sociales dun certaine Angleterre. Ce roman satirique, ou labsurde se fait poesie, est un chef doeuvre dhumour!

Charles Dickens - Voici les aventures et mesaventures de linenarrable Pickwick et son valet Sam Weller, feuilleton picaresque ayant pour heros un Don Quichotte bedonnant et un Sancho Panza sexprimant...

Charles Dickens - Barnabe Rudge est le septieme roman de Charles Dickens, dabord conçu en 1836 sous le titre Gabriel Vardon, The Locksmith of London ( Gabriel Vardon, serrurier a Londres ), pour Richard...

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 Dickens - A Childs History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853. Dickens also published...

Charles Dickens - Le Grillon du foyer (titre original : The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home) est une nouvelle de Charles Dickens parue le 20 decembre 1845, avec des illustrations de Daniel...

Charles Dickens - "A Message from the Sea" was a short story by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins written in 1860 for the Christmas issue of All the Year Round.

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...

Charles Dickens - The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised...

Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Lady Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, Lady Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, before she married – and had a daughter by him....

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...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French...

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Uno dei libri più di successo di Dickens. Romanzo storico-sociale ambientato tra Londra e Parigi nel contesto della Rivoluzione Francese. Il romanzo segue le vite di diversi protagonisti con storie difficili...

Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His most famous novels include Tale of Two Cities, Oliver...

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...

One of a series of episodic tales that Charles Dickens originally published in serial form, A Message From the Sea has one of the most beloved fiction writers in British literary history turning his attention...

A true Christmas classic for all ages: On Christmas Eve, as the miserly Scrooge broods over his hatred of the season, the ghost of his business partner, Marley, appears. Over the course of the evening,...

David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."...

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he...

The story of Trotty Veck, a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve.   Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic....

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale,...

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...

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...

Another entrant in his astoundingly popular series of Christmas parables, Dickens revisits many of the themes and plot devices he first explored in A Christmas Carol in The Haunted Man and the Ghost's...

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...