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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...
"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...
"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...
Esther Summerson, modeste orpheline, a d'abord été recueillie par sa tante, puis par le notable John Jarndyce, propriétaire de Bleak House, qu'elle croit être son père. En réalité, elle est la fille d'un...
Un matin de Noël, la joyeuse troupe des " Picwickiens ", aimables gentlemen partis au hasard des campagnes anglaises pour rendre compte de leurs " explorations " aux correspondants de leur club, se prépare...
Mr Gradgrind est un homme éminemment " pratique ", qui ne connaît dans la vie que les faits, rien que les faits. Il a fondé une école où l'on enseigne à lire et à écrire, mais surtout à compter. Il se...
Un beau matin de 1827, le distingué Pickwick Club de Londres décide de créer une société itinérante, afin de parcourir l'Angleterre et d'alerter ses membres sur les dangers des voyages. Persuadé qu'une...
An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty...
"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals...
Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym auch "Boz"; * 7. Februar 1812 in Landport bei Portsmouth, England; † 9. Juni 1870 auf Gad's Hill Place bei Rochester, England) war ein englischer Schriftsteller....
David Copperfield is also an autobiographical novel: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention", with events following Dickens's own life. Of the books he wrote, it was his favourite. Called...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it...
David nasce pouco depois da morte do seu pai. A mãe, Clara, é fraca, mas ama-o. Quando David tem nove anos, ela casa de novo com um homem cruel e disciplinador que acaba por ser responsável pela sua morte,...
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress, Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse,...
Dickens ambienta questo capolavoro nella prima metà dell'Ottocento e sceglie come protagonista Amy, figlia del vecchio Dorrit, uomo carcerato che sta scontando la sua pena per reati finanziari. Costui,...
L'histoire concerne un orphelin, Oliver Twist, soumis à des privations et des vexations dans l'hospice paroissial où il fut laissé à la suite de la mort de sa mère. Choisi par tirage au sort par ses camarades...
Toby Veck and his daughter Meg live a hardscrabble and miserable life. The servant tries in vain to get a job in order to get some wages. Only the bells of the nearby church tower seem to be his friends....
"In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago-so long, that the story must be a true one, because our great grandfathers implicitly believed it-there officiated as sexton...
The story of Alexandre Manette, a French physician who is released from a long imprisonment on the eve of the French Revolution. As he sets out for London to find his daughter Lucie, social and political...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman,...
Master Humphrey's Clock was the title of the weekly periodical in which The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were originally published. Begun in 1840, the narrative comprises a series of short stories,...
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long...
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised...
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not...
Come gran parte della produzione di Dickens, anche questo romanzo fu pubblicato a puntate nella primavera del 1864 in venti fascicoli. Rispetto alle altre opere più famose del grande scrittore inglese,...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor...
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. They...
Clown Grimaldi von Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens, (als Pseudonym auch Boz; * 7. Februar 1812 in Landport bei Portsmouth, England; † 9. Juni 1870 auf seinem Landsitz Gads Hill Place in Higham bei Rochester,...
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