Charles - Libros y biografía

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...

Magie, druidisme, satanisme et alchimie, Ch. Louandre retrace l'histoire fascinante de la sorcellerie, de ses croyances et de ses instruments. Le texte est suivi d'un article du même auteur sur le...

Charles King (October 12, 1844 in Albany, New York – March 17, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. King was the son of Civil War general Rufus King, grandson...

Charles Dickens pubblicò questo fortunatissimo romanzo storico nel 1859 sulla rivista inglese da lui fondata «All the Year Round». Da allora, questo libro conobbe un enorme successo, vendendo oltre 200...

'Lord Kilgobbin' appeared originally as a serial, (illustrated by Luke Fildes) in 'The Cornhill Magazine,' commencing in the issue for October 1870, and ending in the issue for March 1872. It was first...

Content: 1 - PROSPERITY 2 - THE TWELVE POWERS OF MAN 3 - DYNAMICS FOR LIVING 4 - TEACH US TO PRAY 5 - MYSTERIES OF JOHN 6 - MYSTERIES OF GENESIS 7 - ATOM-SMASHING POWER OF MIND 8 - TALKS ON TRUTH 9 -...

I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high...

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

Il Viaggio di un naturalista intorno al mondo di Charles Darwin è il resoconto di una splendida avventura umana, intellettuale e scientifica. E’ la scoperta curiosa di nuovi mondi da parte di un giovane...

In Victorian England, Amy Dorrit lovingly looks after his father William imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea prison and secretly falls in love with the young family friend Arthur. An unexpected inheritance...

Narra le vicende di Samuel Pickwick e di un gruppo di amici con il quale fonda l'omonimo circolo e con i quali compie un viaggio d'istruzione nell'Inghilterra vittoriana. Libro in lingua originale inglese...

Les Fleurs du mal est une œuvre majeure de la littérature française écrite par Charles Baudelaire, publiée pour la première fois en 1857. C'est un recueil de poèmes explorant des thèmes tels que la décadence,...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation...

Once upon a time there were two princes who were twins. Their names were Acrisius and Prœtus, and they lived in the pleasant vale of Argos, far away in Hellas. They had fruitful meadows and vineyards,...

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom. That is a short name, and you have heard it before, so you will not have much trouble in remembering it. He lived in a great town...

Œuvre majeure de Charles Baudelaire, le recueil de poèmes Les Fleurs du mal, intégrant la quasi-totalité de la production poétique de l’auteur depuis 1840, est publié le 23 juin 1857. C’est l’une des...

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...

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...

"TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and messages for people who...

Un soir de Noel, Scrooge, vieil homme daffaires avare et cupide, a une hallucination en rentrant chez lui : il voit le fantome de Jacob Marley, son associe decede des annees auparavant, dans le marteau...

David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850. Its full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David...

Charles Dickens - Grace a Mr Pickwick et a son club on se delecte des conventions sociales dun certaine Angleterre. Ce roman satirique, ou labsurde se fait poesie, est un chef doeuvre dhumour!

Charles Dickens - Voici les aventures et mesaventures de linenarrable Pickwick et son valet Sam Weller, feuilleton picaresque ayant pour heros un Don Quichotte bedonnant et un Sancho Panza sexprimant...

Charles Dickens - Barnabe Rudge est le septieme roman de Charles Dickens, dabord conçu en 1836 sous le titre Gabriel Vardon, The Locksmith of London ( Gabriel Vardon, serrurier a Londres ), pour Richard...

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....

Charles Dickens - A Childs History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853. Dickens also published...

Charles Dickens - Le Grillon du foyer (titre original : The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home) est une nouvelle de Charles Dickens parue le 20 decembre 1845, avec des illustrations de Daniel...

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. A few moments later there was. Lionel Rackstraw, strolling back from lunch, heard in the corridor...

An old man was sitting alone in a small room. He was at a table facing the door; behind him was another door. The walls were bare of pictures: the table was a large one, and it was almost completely covered...

Roger Ingram's peroration broke over the silent dining hall: "He and such as he are one with the great conquerors, the great scientists, the great poets; they have all of them cried of the unknown: 'I...