Charles Dickens. - Libros y biografía

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. Dickens' career as a writer of fiction truly began with this collection in 1833, when he started writing humorous...

Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther...

This work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its...

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's...

This work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its...

Starved and mistreated, empty bowl in hand, the young hero musters the courage to approach his master, saying, "Please, sir, I want some more." Oliver Twist's famous cry of the heart has resounded with...

Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before and after it.The novel follows a classical tripartite...

This work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from...

Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel 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 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...

In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the...

Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy,...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success...

The story takes place in Cloisterham, an imaginary city inspired by Dickens by Rochester, Kent, whose topography, architecture and atmosphere, well known to him, spent part of his childhood in the nearby...

Dombey and Son is an English novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), published in London in nineteen soap operas from October 1846 to April 1848 by The Graphic Magazine, and in a single volume by Bradbury...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful...

Both Edward's father, John Chester, and Emma's uncle, the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale – these two are sworn enemies – oppose their union after Sir John untruthfully convinces Geoffrey that Edward's intentions...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by...

This Work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846....

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...

This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Pickwick Papers - Oliver Twist - Nicholas Nickleby - The Old Curiosity Shop...

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This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens'...

This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Pickwick Papers - Oliver Twist - Nicholas Nickleby - The Old Curiosity Shop...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens'...

A Message from the Sea is a short story by Charles Dickens written in 1860 for the Christmas issue of All the Year Round. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel 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...