Charles Dickens. - Libros y biografía

Nella Londra del XIX secolo, il vecchio banchiere Ebenezer Scrooge lavora ogni giorno per accumulare denaro. Ricco, avido, egoista, rimane in ufficio fino a tardi anche il giorno della Vigilia di Natale,...

Oliver Twist és una novel·la que no pot faltar en cap biblioteca. L'obra explica les aventures del seu protagonista per sobreviure en una societat dura i cruel amb els més febles. Ambientada a Londres...

Opowie?? wigilijna to opowiadanie autorstwa angielskiego pisarza Charlesa Dickensa. Po raz pierwszy zosta?o opublikowane przez Chapman & Hall 19 grudnia 1843 roku. Ksi??ka opowiada histori? zgorzknia?ego...

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,...

Bleakhaus von Charles Dickens Bleak House ist der neunte Roman von Charles Dickens. Der Roman, der in den 1820er Jahren spielt, erschien von März 1852 bis September 1853 in 20 Fortsetzungen. Jede Folge...

Ottavo romanzo scritto dal celebre scrittore britannico, fu pubblicato a puntate inizialmente a cavallo tra il 1849 e il 1850. Secondo Dickens, 'David Copperfield' è l'opera che lui stesso ha più amato...

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 piccola Dorrit (Little Dorrit) è un romanzo...

Romanzo che narra la storia di John Harmon, il quale scopre di aver ereditato un fortuna in seguito alla morte del padre, alla condizione di sposare Bella Wilfer, una donna che John non conosce. Un fortuito...

The lives of the old mill workers, Stephen and Rachael, made of suffering and impotent rebellion, characteristic of the Industrial Revolution.

A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining...