Charles - Libros y biografía

«Qui risplendono a luce piena il senso, la forza e la vocazione e, per così dire, la virtù di quella che abbiamo chiamato la bimba Speranza. È la fonte di vita, perché è lei che costantemente disabitua....

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...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles...

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...

The major commanding looked up from the morning report and surveyed the post adjutant with something of perturbation, if not annoyance, in his grim, gray eyes. For the fourth time that week had Lieutenant...

WHILE WORKING FOR THE LAST nine years at the History of the Peninsular War, I have (as was inevitable) been compelled to accumulate many notes, and much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon...

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...

Non-Fiction Biographie Littérature  

L'Origine des espèces par le moyen de la sélection naturelle, ou la préservation des races favorisées dans la lutte pour la vie (Titre anglais original : On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,...

Non-Fiction Sciences et techniques Sciences Sciences de la terre Géologie  

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...

Time and time again, Victorian literary luminary Charles Dickens gravitated to themes and fictional frameworks that allowed him to explore the diversity of humanity. That's the concept at the heart of...

Although he is now revered as the author of such long-form masterworks as Great Expectations, Charles Dickens' short stories ranked among his most popular creative endeavors during his lifetime. Like...

In this charming series of short stories from Victorian author nonpareil Charles Dickens, four pairs of lovebirds offer up a detailed account of their courtships. There's just one catch — none of the...

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company, Paul Dombey, who dreams of having a son to carry on the family business. It deals with themes such as marriage...

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness. And every member of the Chuzzlewit family is given the chance to display their own brand thereof, among...

Per la prima volta Fermento pubblica insieme le due opere di Charles Darwin che hanno rivoluzionato la biologia e la storia stessa dell'uomo. Pubblicato nel 1859, ' L'origine della specie' costituisce...

Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas...

"I fiori del male" è una raccolta lirica di Charles Baudelaire. La prima edizione fu pubblicata nel giugno del 1857 in una tiratura di soli 1300 esemplari. Il testo comprendeva cento poesie divise in...

The premier novel of the French Revolution, by England's greatest author Set against the bloodthirsty backdrop of revolutionary France, this monumental saga—one of the most famous works in all of literature—is...