Charles Dickens
81) Oliver Twist
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Numa pequena cidade de Inglaterra, uma jovem dá à luz um menino e morre em seguida. O pequeno órfão recebe o nome de Oliver Twist e vive os seus primeiros nove anos em instituições de caridade. Não suportando tantos maus-tratos,Oliver foge para Londres, onde inadvertidamente se junta a um bando de marginais comandado por um grande vilão: Fagin...
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Maravillosa fantasía edificante construida sobre un humorístico trasfondo de crítica social, esta novela breve publicada inicialmente el 19 de diciembre de 1843 pasó a ser muy pronto, y sigue siendo hasta hoy, la narración navideña más popular de todos los tiempos y lugares, como lo demuestran no solo las constantes ediciones y traducciones, sino también las numerosas adaptaciones para el teatro, el cine (ya desde 1901), los dibujos animados,...
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As a remedy to sleeplessness, Charles Dickens used to take to wandering the streets of London at night for long stretches of time. On those walks, he gained a great deal of experience of and sympathy for homeless people and what it was like to share their world, noting down his observations in the series of essays and accounts contained within this volume. The essays include: "Night walks" (1860), "Gone Astray" (1853), "Chatham Dockyard" (1863), "Wapping...
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Four classic tales from three famous authors to enliven and inspire your celebration of Christmas this season… This beautiful gift book contains three heart-warming stories that recall Christmases past: • O.Henry's all-American tale, "The Gift of the Magi," originally published in 1906. • Leo Tolstoy's Russian folktale, "Where Love Is, There God Is Also" from 1887. • Charles Dickens' little known classic, "The Seven Poor Travellers" and "What...
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Dickens, cuando contaba con tal solo veinticinco años y todavía firmaba como Boz, recibió el encargo de escribir las memorias de Joseph Grimaldi, el famoso clown, a partir de la propia autobiografía que el payaso había dejado escrita poco antes de morir. Grimaldi fue el payaso británico más importante del siglo XIX y, por qué no, de todos los tiempos, hasta tal punto que su "nombre de guerra" (Joey) se usa todavía en Inglaterra como sinónimo...
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Many readers know Victorian England through the writings of Charles Dickens. Not only did Dickens put a face on the era through his memorable characters, he also captured the spirit of his age in entertaining fiction spun from its social concerns and historical events. This literary omnibus brings together three of Dickens's best-known novels: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Prolific, energetic, and committed to social...
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This elegant edition gathers seven spirited Yuletide fables by Charles Dickens. The heartwarming tales tell of people rescued from their own folly by mysterious strangers - including goblins, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. In addition to the author's most famous holiday tale, "A Christmas Carol," this collection features "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Chimes," "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain," "The Seven Poor Travellers," "The...
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The essential collection of classic Christmas books and stories in one book: •The Abbot's Ghost, A Christmas Story, A. M. Barnard 1867 •The Sad Shepherd, A Christmas Story, Henry Van Dyke 1911 •Christmas Comes but Once A Year, Luke Limner 1850 •A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 1843 •A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others, 1885 •The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, Charles Dickens 1907 •Some Christmas Stories,...
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Introduce Classic Dickens Stories to Kids. This compilation of stories about children from Charles Dickens' classic books have been modified to be easier to read. These stories will make the readers fall in love with the charming children and are a great introduction to classic novels like Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and more.
93) Mugby Junction
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En 1865, Charles Dickens sufrió un accidente cuando descarriló el tren en el que viajaba. Un año después, vivió una mala experiencia con el servicio de la estación de Rugby, donde tuvo que quedarse durante un día entero. Fue a partir de estos sucesos que Dickens decidió, junto con sus colaboradores Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday y Hesba Stretton, escribir una serie de relatos repletos de humor negro que encuentran su punto...
95) On London
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Dickens' London is a thing of legend. The sense of place was of the utmost importance for Dickens, and nowhere is more synonymous with his name than London. The most splendid of all his characters, the city was the subject of scrupulous research: Dickens spent several hours a day exploring its streets and inhabitants. The pieces collected here reveal London to be the primary inspiration for one of the geniuses of English literature.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne, Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen, The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas, Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson, Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad, Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte, The Island of Doctor Moreau- H. G. Wells, Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, War...
97) Die Pickwickier
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Hauptfigur des Romans ist der Gelehrte Samuel Pickwick, Gründer und Präsident des Pickwick-Klubs. Um neue Erkenntnisse zu sammeln, unternimmt er zusammen mit den Klubmitgliedern Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass und Nathaniel Winkle zahlreiche Reisen innerhalb Englands. Beinah episodenhaft und mit viel Humor und Situationskomik schildert Charles Dickens dabei die zu bestehenden Abenteuer. Durch die Berufung auf die (fiktiven) Protokolle des Pickwick-Klubs...
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Mr. Pickwick's Christmas : An account of the pickwickians' christmas at the manor farm, of the adventures there; The Tale of the Goblin who stole a sexton, and of the famous sports on ice. As written in the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. With illustrations in colour and line by George Alfred Williams. (Goodreads)
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Publicado originalmente na forma de folhetim entre 1849 e 1850, "David Copperfield" é o romance mais autobiográfico de Charles Dickens. Mas não só: nas palavras do grande escritor, que inspirou outros gigantes da literatura ocidental como Tolstói, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov e Cortázar, este é seu "filho predileto".
Nele, acompanhamos a jornada do herói, nascido na Inglaterra dos anos 1820: órfão de pai desde o nascimento, David Copperfield pertence...