Charles - Libros y biografía

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

Samuel Pickwick and three young friends will be protagonists of numerous adventures during their educational trip in the English countryside.

We had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of...

If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland...

Hereford Cathedral bears the name of Ethelbert of East Anglia, king and martyr, round whose death, at the hands of the men of Offa of Mercia, this story of his comrade centres, and dates its foundation...

Il circolo Pickwick (1836-37) rimane senza dubbio un capolavoro letterario che fa dell’umorismo la sua scelta stilistica peculiare. La trama del romanzo funge solo da scheletro per sorreggere una costellazione...

**** PREMIUM EBOOK WITH BEAUTIFUL LAYOUT **** The "Petits Poèmes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in...

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837– 39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold...

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My...

Questo ebook contiene materiale rarissimo, pubblicato per la prima volta in lingua italiana, che completa lo straordinario metodo creato da Charles Haanel La Chiave Suprema. Sono vere e proprie “lezioni...

Una donna custode di un segreto inconfessabile… Un incontro che stravolge la vita… Un sogno che accarezza la realtà… Silvia è una ragazza alla quale la vita ha voltato le spalle. Sola al mondo, riesce...

Trouvant l'apaisement auprès de Notre-Dame de Chartres, Charles Péguy nous livre ici des poèmes et des prières d'un lyrisme mystique inégalé.

Celeberrimo racconto che narra la conversione dell'arido e tirchio Ebenezer Scrooge visitato nella notte di Natale da tre spiriti (del passato, del presente e del futuro) preceduti da un'ammonizione dello...

"Until this moment I have never fully realised how great an ass a man can be. When I think that this morning I scurried through what might have been a decent breakfast, left my comfortable diggings, and...

The Notting Hill Mystery is a detective novel written by Charles Warren Adams under the pseudonym Charles Felix who was an English lawyer, publisher and anti-vivisectionist. The Novel as it appeared in...

The Water Babies: Illustrated By Charles Kingsley. On the surface, Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies' appears to be a traditional fairy tale complete with fairies, sea-beasts and talking animals....

David Copperfield (1850) resta uno dei libri più fortunati della produzione letteraria di Charles Dickens. La storia, di stampo autobiografico, narra la vita di David, rimasto presto orfano, e della sua...

Nella gelida notte della vigilia di Natale il vecchio Scrooge, che ha passato tutta la sua vita ad accumulare denaro, riceve la visita terrificante del fantasma del suo socio. Ma è solo l’inizio: ben...

Impoverished, an old antique dealer and his young niece Nell, leave the shop and begin their peregrination to London, which will lead them to encounter numerous bizarre characters and will end in a peaceful...

Il Circolo Pickwick di Charles Dickens, scritto nel 1836-37, è considerato un capolavoro dell’umorismo. La trama non è altro che un pretesto per rappresentare una moltitudine di personaggi appartenenti...

"A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas" (wörtlich "Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa", oder "Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest’", deutsch meist "Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte") ist eine...

Charles Dickens pubblicò il romanzo La bottega dell’antiquario nel 1840. Ridotti in miseria dallo spaventoso e malvagio nano Quilp, dal suo debole avvocato Sansone Brass e dall'energica sorella di quest'ultimo,...

Sullo sfondo di una Londra del primo industrialismo, a seguito della prematura morte del padre, Nicholas Nickleby, seppur in tenera età è costretto ad arrangiarsi per permettere il sostentamento dell'intera...

The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his father....

"David Copperfield" è il titolo dell’ottavo romanzo del grande scrittore inglese Charles Dickens pubblicato nel 1850. Il romanzo "David Copperfield" racconta infatti la storia travagliata di un ragazzo...

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. First published in 1854. And now republish in ebook format....

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks amongst the most famous works...

THE period of the Reformation had produced two great changes in the history of Europe. It had revolutionised religion and it had revolutionised commerce. Both changes were the result of a previous revolution...

Twice since the Norman Conquest has the little country of England been the center of an empire: once when Henry II of England was at the same time master of half France; and now again when the Union Jack...

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