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Plongez dans les rues sombres et palpitantes de l'Angleterre victorienne avec "Oliver Twist" de Charles Dickens, un chef-d'œuvre intemporel de la littérature. Suivez le destin captivant d'Oliver Twist, un jeune orphelin courageux, alors qu'il affronte l'injustice, la pauvreté et la cruauté du monde qui l'entoure. Oliver, maltraité dans un orphelinat, s'échappe à Londres o il se retrouve mêlé à une bande de voleurs dirigée par l'infâme...
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This superb collection of classic Victorian literature features the most notable works of Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist (1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861). Considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Dickens was especially known for his unusual characters, incisive social commentary, and carefully constructed plots. Over the last two centuries, his popular fiction has continued...
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Published in its entirety for the first time since 1852, this shining collection of Christmas tales was originally selected by Charles Dickens for his periodical Household Words. Each story varies in theme and tone, with scenes of romance, theft, justice, and heart-warming family reunions set alongside haunting tales and chilling ghost stories, while topics addressed range from the meaning of Christmas to disability and race. Contributing authors...
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Widely considered the greatest author of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, winning universal praise as a literary genius. Dickens' novels and beloved tales not only entertained the world, but helped to improve the lives of the lower classes and fight social injustices. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Dickens' complete works, with hundreds of illustrations...
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In 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', Professor Redlaw nurses grievances and past wrongs done to him as he stares into the fire. Visited by a spirit who appears to him as his phantom twin, he is offered a way to 'forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble' he has known. This intervention has consequences for the people in Redlaw's life, and leads to a resolution of his troubles. This is the last of the five Dickens Christmas Books that begin with...
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Three of Dickens's most compelling orphan protagonists-Oliver Twist, Pip, and Esther Summerson-in three of his greatest novels. Perhaps no writer in the English language is more closely associated with orphaned characters than Charles Dickens. The trials and dangers for children without parental protection play a significant part in nearly all his work, as both a source of highly entertaining melodrama and pointed social criticism. Oliver Twist: Having...
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The Ultimate Charles Dickens Christmas features all of the Victorian storyteller's beloved Christmas tales that encapsulate the true spirit of the holidays. Beginning with the classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, this special holiday edition also features Dickens' anthology Some Christmas Stories alongside his other festive short stories "The Chimes" "The Cricket on the Hearth" "The Battle of Life" and "The Haunted Man." HarperPerennial...
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Written in the style of a letter to a close friend, "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy" resolves the story begun in "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings". Full of stories of kindness and goodwill, the story reprises the issue of the parentage of an abandoned child and involves a bequest to the widow Lirriper which puts everything to right. Originally published in the 1864 Christmas issue of "All The Year Round", this story was a collaboration with other writers including...
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In "Somebody's Luggage", an 1862 short story by Charles Dickens, the narrator stumbles upon some luggage left behind in the hotel where he works. Searching through it to help identify the owner, the workers find evidence of a wide variety of high-quality stories hidden away inside the luggage. When these stories are then published the mysterious author finally steps up to claim them.
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Under a pseudonym Timothy Sparks, the then 24 years old Dickens wrote a pamphlet entitled Sunday Under Three Headsin which he defended the people's right to pleasure, opposing a plan to prohibit games on Sundays. The pamphlet was dedicated (without permission) to the Bishop of London. It was published by Chapman and Hall on Friday, 8 July 1836. The full title is Sunday Under Three Heads. As it is; As Sabbath Bills would make it; As it might be made....
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A Charles Dickens Christmas features four stories from the Victorian storyteller that encapsulate the true spirit of the holidays. Tales such as The Chimes, a New Year's story of redemption, The Cricket on the Hearth, a fairy tale of home, The Battle of Life, an inspiring love story, and The Haunted Man, a story of finding the spirit of Christmas, are the perfect complement to a cold winter's night spent curled up reading by the fire.
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In Charles Dickens' short story, "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings", a recently widowed landlady is called upon to bring up an abandoned child. Mrs. Lirriper and her longtime lodger, the Major, entertain the child by relating stories of their colorful fellow lodgers. Before long, the landlady and the Major are involved in their own suspenseful tale. Originally published in the 1863 Christmas issue of "All The Year Round", this story was a collaboration with...
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Charles Dickens‚ 1835 short work, ‚ A Christmas Dinner", lovingly describes many of the traditions, foods, games and festivities we still associate with Christmas. This meditation, included in his debut collection "Sketches By Boz" (1836) includes the beginnings of his ideas for "A Christmas Carol", including a "misanthrope" who doesn't join in the Christmas spirit, and an empty chair at the family dinner table (Tiny Tim). A holiday classic and...
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Charles Dickens's first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) is a series of loosely-related stories about Pickwick Club founder Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, and the gentlemen of his acquaintance, including Augustus Snodgrass and Tracy Tupman, and his manservant, Sam Weller. Originally published as a serial between 1836 and 1837, The Pickwick Papers became a publishing phenomenon after the introduction of Sam Weller...
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Charles Dickens ist vor allem durch große Romane wie Oliver Twist oder David Copperfield bekannt geworden, er ist aber auch ein Verfasser von großartiger Kurzprosa. In "Londoner Skizzen. 1836" beschreibt er das London zu seiner Zeit und erweist sich als genauer und humorvoller Beobachter des alltäglichen Lebens in all seinen Facetten. Dieses Ebook enthält 24 seiner besten Kurzgeschichten.
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"... Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences...."
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, a Fancy for Christmas-Time, bookends the series of five Christmas stories by Charles Dickens (1812—1870) that began in 1843 with A Christmas Carol.
Originally published in 1848, this dark yet redemptive...
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In Charles Dickens' adventure story, "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners", a silver mine is captured by brigands, who also kill a number of English colonists and take the rest hostage. In the ensuing narrative, the pluck of some intrepid women prisoners enables the captives to make a daring escape. Inspired by the real-life events of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, Dickens set this novella in Belize to blur the distinction.
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Read one of the Dickens classics.
The definitive edition.
• Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles Dickens
• Digitally remastered clear type for easy reading
Dombey and Son is a classic Dickens tale originally told in monthly installments.
Obsessed with his desire to have a son as an heir, Paul Dombey all but ignores his eldest daughter Florence. Mr. Dombey's dream becomes a reality when his wife gives birth to...