Charles Dickens: 1999 books

Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers....

Sappiamo tutto del Dickens autore di denuncia sociale, dello spietato e preciso cronista dell'Inghilterra stravolta per sempre dalla Rivoluzione Industriale. Meno nota invece è la sua produzione 'sovrannaturale', ma non per questo meno affascinante. In questa raccolta il grande autore si esibisce...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage,...

Dickens' grandest, most virtuosic achievement, Bleak House combines two tales: the story of wealthy Lady Dedlock, recounted in the third person, and that of penniless Esther Summerson, told in her own words. The haughty noblewoman and the orphan are connected by the court case Jarndyce and Jarndyce,...

Collection of articles originally published in the magazine "All the Year Round", including Announcement in "Household Words", The Poor Man and his Beer, Five New Points of Criminal Law, Leigh Hunt: A Remonstrance, The Tattlesnivel Bleater, The Young Man from the Country, An Enlightened Clergyman,...

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more...

Olivier in het werkhuis van de parochie. Olivier bij de begrafenisondernemer. Olivier opgeleid tot zakkenroller. Olivier geholpen door Nancy, het liefje van Bill Sikes. Olivier Twist, Dickens' bekendste roman verfilmd, op muziek gezet, maar vooral gelezen door generatie op generatie. Geheim? Het kostelijke...

De meeste van de in de verzamelde Kerstvertellingen zijn oorspronkelijk geschreven voor het weekblad Household Words waarvan op 30 Maart 1850 het eerste nummer verscheen. Twintig jaar na de mislukking van Master Humphrey's Clock, vier jaar nadat hij The Daily News mismoedig de rug had toegekeerd,...

Olivier in het werkhuis van de parochie. Olivier bij de begrafenisondernemer. Olivier opgeleid tot zakkenroller. Olivier geholpen door Nancy, het liefje van Bill Sikes. Olivier Twist, Dickens' bekendste roman verfilmd, op muziek gezet, maar vooral gelezen door generatie op generatie. Geheim? Het kostelijke...

Dit boek is het schetsboek van de waarneming en fantasie van een groot kunstenaar, en zoals een vluchtige tekening van Rembrandt of Rubens ons soms meer en directer aanspreekt dan een uitgewerkt schilderij, zo gaat het ook met deze schetsen. Ogenschijnlijk heeft met hier te doen met een soort journalistiek,...

Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and,...

A Tale of Two Cities is shorter and more compact than many of Dickens' novels and also more serious. Set in England and France during the French Revolution, it deals with ideas of grace and resurrection and explores the mob mentality of the Revolution. It is also a love story.

¡Este libro contiene un indice interactivo que harán la lectura un verdadero placer! La novela narra la historia del huérfano Pip, quien describe su vida desde su niñez hasta su madurez tratando de convertirse en un hombre de nobleza a lo largo de su vida. Se puede decir que se trata de un Bildungsroman....

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  Probably the best-known of all Dickens' works, Oliver Twist...