Charles Dickens
81) 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...
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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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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...
88) Doctor Marigold
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In "Doctor Marigold", a man sells cheap items and goods from a traveling cart/home he shares with his wife and his daughter. When the daughter dies and the mother commits suicide, Marigold's fortunes turn around when he adopts a deaf-mute girl and names her after his deceased daughter. This heartwarming classic story was originally published in 1865 in the Christmas edition of "All The Year Round".
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"One Woman" is a romance novel set in the rural village of Old Town in Sussex. Ernest Caspar finally gets to marry the love of his life, Miss Ruth Boam, despite his mother's vehement opposition to the match. The newlywed couple settles into their new life but their marriage won't be easy and will face great testing, not least the intrusion by their proud yet successful neighbor Alf…
91) 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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Wish you had time to re-read and enjoy that daunting stack of Charles Dickens novels?
Take heart: Dickens enthusiast Gina Dalfonzo has done the heavy lifting for you. In short, readable excerpts she presents the essence of the great novelist's prodigious output, teasing out dozens of the most memorable scenes to reveal the Christian vision and values that suffuse all his work. Dickens can certainly entertain, but his legacy endures because of his...
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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)
94) 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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"Dickens on the Tories" contains a collection of verse satires by Charles Dickens related to the Tory party of the United Kingdom, whom he despised and abhorred. Displeased with their return to power, he originally considered standing for the Liberals before writing "The Fine Old English Gentleman", "The Quack Doctor's Proclamation", and "Subjects for Painters" to vent his anger. Also includes: "The British Lion a New Song but an Old Story", and "The...
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First published in 1859, "The Haunted House" is a trio of short stories written ("conducted") by Charles Dickens for the weekly periodical "All the Year Round". Originally, a "portmanteau" story, Dickens wrote the opening and closing stories of a collection that included contributions by Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell, among others. Each story has an element of the strange, scary or supernatural, making it perfect for reading on winter nights...
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First published serially between 1864 and 1865, "Our Mutual Friend" is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens. The death of a wealthy miser, who is estranged from all except his trusted employees, Nicodemus and Henrietta Boffin, brings his son John Harmon back to London in order to claim his inheritance. The patrimony carries with it one condition, that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella Wilfer. When a body is found floating in the...
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Nadie podrá dejar de amar y compadecer a George Silverman una vez conozca su historia, la que narra esta fascinante novela corta, una de las menos conocidas pero más bellas de su autor, el gran novelista británico del siglo XIX.
George es pobre y siempre tiene hambre; ha pasado su corta existencia en un lúgubre sótano; sus padres acaban de morir... Pero, por fin, va a salir al exterior; a una vida más pura, como insinúa cínicamente su nuevo...
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In Charles Dickens' short story Going into Society, a dwarf from the circus wins the lottery, and with it, a large sum of money. Taking two other members of the circus with him, he attempts to set up a business in "Society", only to discover that society is not all it's cracked up to be.