Charles Dickens
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Puede que la vida de los Nickleby no sea la más interesante, pero sin duda es apacible... hasta que el padre muere y la familia debe ir a Londres para pedir ayuda a un mezquino pariente. A cambio, este pone una condición: su sobrino trabajará como profesor en una escuela de Yorkshire. El joven e impulsivo Nicholas parte lleno de entusiasmo, pero pronto descubre que allí el director se asemeja más a un carcelero dispuesto a atormentar a sus alumnos...
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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic who lived during the 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era and is known for his vivid portrayals of the social and economic conditions of the time. His works often addressed issues of poverty, social injustice, and class struggle, and he is credited with helping to raise public awareness of these issues. Some of his most famous works include "Oliver...
84) The Signalman
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'The Signalman' (1866) is a short story by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870). In the story, a practical-minded narrator meets a railway worker who has been seeing supernatural visions. The narrator doubts the man at first, but at the story's conclusion a strange event makes him a believer.
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Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels but also for his shorter works. Particularly notable are his five Christmas novellas, especially A Christmas Carol. In this genre, Dickens's stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for it became an annual tradition for the author to publish one in time for the holiday season between 1843 and 1847. Three Short Stories brings together a trio of the celebrated author's Christmas stories: The Cricket...
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The complete works of Charles Dickens in one collection:
•American Notes for General Circulation
•Bardell v. Pickwick
•Barnaby Rudge
•The Battle of Life
•Bleak House
•A Child's History of England
•The Chimes
•A Christmas Carol
•The Cricket on the Hearth
•David Copperfield
•Doctor Marigold
•Dombey and Son
•George Silverman's Explanation
•Going into Society
•Great Expectations
•Hard Times
•The Haunted...
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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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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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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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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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No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than Charles Dickens. Collected here are the five Christmas Novellas (A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain), plus twenty-three other short works on the theme of kindness and goodwill from "A Christmas Dinner" (1835) to "No Thoroughfare" (1867). Read and reread these heartwarming classics every...
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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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Compiled and edited by the Rev. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, this collection of classic Dickens stories is sure to delight and entertain any child. Contains simple and short versions of some of Dickens' most famous children's tales, such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.
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Chemistry teacher Redlaw is stuck in the past and obsessed with wrongs done to him. When faced with a phantom twin, Redlaw agrees to erase his memories of past grievances and must endure the unexpected consequences of doing so. The fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas, "The Haunted Man" concentrates more on spirit of the holidays than the holidays themselves and is reminiscent of "A Christmas Carol". Dickens's Christmas novels perfectly...
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Dickens parodies the proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these records of "The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything" and its delightful professors Snore, Doze, and Wheezy. Originally published monthly in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837–38, The Mudfog Papers makes use of Parliamentary reports, memoirs, and posthumous papers, as did Dicken's earlier comic success, The Pickwick Papers.
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An adept story-teller, Charles Dickens was perhaps most at home in the detective or mystery genres, epitomised in what is commonly hailed as one of the best detective stories of all time: "Bleak House". The "Inspector Bucket" of this story is none other than Inspector Field from said novel, who must endure the terrible depths of London's impoverished underbelly as experienced by Dickens himself. This classic work is being republished now in a new...
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Three classic novels of wealth, poverty, murder, and ambition from the greatest storyteller of the Victorian era.
Filled with drama, emotion, and suspense, these three novels have compelled and delighted readers for well over a century.
Martin Chuzzlewit: After losing his inheritance, a young man strives to make his own fortune, in this witty, wide-ranging saga.
Nicholas Nickleby: A young man fights to save his mother, his sister, and a group of...