مؤلف: Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens's own lif …

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edit …

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Revered as one of the greatest writers in the English language, Charles Dickens is celebrated for his masterful storytelling, comic genius, and remarkably memorable characters. His early novels, such …

A sense of impending evil hovers over a cathedral town, where one man, an outwardly respectable opium addict, is consumed with jealousy over the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, to a lovely you …

"Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child, " confessed Charles Dickens in the preface of this novel, "and his name is David Copperfield." Millions of …

First published serially in 1840–41 in Dickens’ own magazine, Master Humphrey’s Clock, and in book form in 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching sto …

In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her husband, Joe, is apprenticed to the dirty work of t …

Starved and mistreated, empty bowl in hand, the young hero musters the courage to approach his master, saying, ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’ Oliver Twist’s famous cry of the heart has resounded wi …

‘My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else, ‘ proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thoma …

Includes the unabridged text of Dicken’s classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work’s content and context. The comprehensive guide includes …

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, g …

It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the i …

Rich in the imagery of nineteenth-century England, this literary classic celebrates a return to old-fashioned Christmas festivities while examining the crisis in one man’s personal life. One of the m …

With the publication of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens almost single-handedly created the genre of the ‘Christmas story.’ And while that beloved classic remains among the best known in the field, …

Test? Paper? Class discussion? Don’t worry, this book has everything you need. Not only does it feature the complete text of A Tale of Two Cities, it offers a comprehensive study guide that will easi …

In 1844, Charles Dickens embarked on a year-long visit to Italy, where he turned his perceptive views of the human condition toward a thoughtful appraisal of the country’s soul and character. Combini …

"Of all the Dickens I’ve read … Our Mutual Friend remains my favorite." — Jane Smiley.A young man returns from abroad to claim his inheritance — but he never arrives and i …

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 ow …

Mr. Pickwick, a convivial old gentleman, resolves that he and three other "Pickwickians" — Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman — should travel bey …

Coldhearted Ebenezer Scrooge has no use for Christmas cheer. He rejects a dinner invitation from his jolly nephew, scolds charity workers, and very begrudgingly allows his clerk a day off. All the wa …

King Watkins the First is the father of the lovely and kind-hearted Princess Alicia and a tribe of eighteen other darlings. Between their money problems, the queen’s illness, and the children’s boist …

"This is not the republic of my imagination, " Charles Dickens noted ruefully of his 1842 visit to the United States. His American Notes forms a stinging reproof of the country’s embrace of …

With the sudden death of their father, the penniless Nicklebys are forced to leave the comfort of their Devonshire estate and seek refuge in London with a duplicitous relative. Ruthless businessman R …

Wealthy shipping merchant Paul Dombey runs his family like he runs his business, with coldness and calculation. When his wife dies giving birth to their second child and long hoped-for heir, Dombey r …

A sweet-natured seamstress has lived all her life in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, where her family has been in custody since before her birth. When Little Dorrit ventures out of jail to work, she …

Martin Chuzzlewit is suspicious — and with good reason. His relatives think he's dying and they're flocking to his side from near and far in eager anticipation of inheriting his vast we …

Unjustly neglected but amply rewarding, this historical drama recaptures the turmoil of the Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby Rudge combines elements of an unsolved murder and a forbidden romance to draw …

'Bah, 'said Scrooge, 'Humbug.'But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of …

A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genre Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While t …

In A Tale of Two Cities, French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Darnay’s wife Lucie against the menacing backdrop of the French Revolution and the shadow of the …

Uno dei libri più belli dei classici è "Le Due Città” scritto da Charles Dickens. Un libro che fa parte della grande famiglia di quei classici della letteratura apprez …

This is a work by Charles Dickens about various types of couples including cool couples, loving couples, the plausible couples and others. Author characterizes each type with his inherent wittiness a …

This is a collection of Christmas stories by Charles Dickens. The stories are full of Christmas magic, love, compassion and kindness which inject Christmas spirit into the reader. This is an illustra …

This is a collection of the famous literary and social speeches by Charles Dickens. Those speeches contain the wisdom and smartness of the great and funny writer. This is an illustrated version of th …

Charles Dickens Six Pack is a two thousand page plus anthology presenting six of the best Dickens novels along with image galleries showcasing Dickens portraits, first edition covers and original ill …

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has sold more copies than any other individual book in history. Almost twice as many as the first Harry Potter book. Over two hundred million copies and counti …

Considered Dickens’ harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects,   Hard Times offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with th …

The Old Curiosity Shop  follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being …

Great Expectations  is Charles Dickens’s thirteenth novel and his second novel, after  David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The story traces the growth of Philip Pir …

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French ari …

Barnaby Rudge is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Curiosity Shop) that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–184 …

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come from the Victorian era. He created some of the most iconic characters and sto …

‘A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth’ contains three of Charles Dickens most popular Christmas-time stories. In ‘A Christmas Carol’ we have the classic story of Ebenezer Scro …

This edition brings together the complete Christmas books and short stories of Charles Dickens. While readers will be most familiar with ‘The Christmas Carol’ in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by …

While readers will be most familiar with ‘The Christmas Carol’ in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, D …

This edition brings together the complete Christmas stories of Charles Dickens. In this volume you will find the following entertaining holiday tales: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow O …

“Great Expectations” is the classic novel by Charles Dickens that traces the life of an orphan named Pip. The novel begins on Christmas Eve 1812 where we find a seven year old Pip as he encounters an …

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ” so begins Charles Dickens’s famous novel concerning the contentious time leading up to and during the French Revolution. In these first words D …

First published in 1843, “A Christmas Carol” is arguably Dickens’s most popular and accessible work. An instant success ever since its original publication, it is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a col …

Originally serialized in “Bentley’s Miscellany” between February 1837 and April 1839, “Oliver Twist, ” is Charles Dickens’s second novel, the classic story of the struggles of a young orphan in 19th …

The eighth novel of Charles Dickens, which was first published serially between May 1849 and November 1850, “David Copperfield, ” is viewed as one of the most autobiographical of all the author’s nov …

Charles Dickens’s tenth novel, which was first published serially in Dickens’s own periodical journal “Household Words” in 1854, “Hard Times, ” is a work that sought to highlight the social and econo …

Widely considered as one of Dickens most superb and complete novels, “Bleak House” contains a more vastly complex and engaging array of characters and sub-plots than any of Dickens’s novels. As is co …

Though only Dickens’ third novel, “Nicholas Nickleby” is a well-crafted and significant precursor to his other great works. The tale follows the fortunes of a young man, the son of an imprudent gentl …

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 employee …

Charles Dickens’s first novel, “The Pickwick Papers” was originally published in serial form between March 1836 and October 1837. Drawing on Dickens’s experience as a journalist and reporter in Londo …

Originally published in serial form from 1855 to 1857, “Little Dorrit” is characteristic of Charles Dickens’ later works. The story is a condemnation of British society, particularly of the system of …

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 Conra …

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called …

In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London—measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, ‘ or rather from the spot on or near to which …

Oliver Twist, (also known as The Parish Boys Progress) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was first published in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a w …

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 …

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 …

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En cada relato, los personajes se encuentran con alucinaciones, por no llamarlos fantasmas. El escenario de cada momento es narrado por la astucia del escritor de una manera muy distintiva, única. Su …

Mother Nature is the most photographed subject in the world. Storms have captured media attention for centuries. Many storm chasers have risked their lives to get an up-close photograph of a hurrican …

Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las más acabadas representaciones del avaro en la histori …

Sí…¡de un loco! ¿Como hubiera herido mi corazón esta palabra algunos años ¡ha! Como hubiera des-pertado el terror que de vez en cuando me acometía, haciendo que la sangre como fuego corriera por mi …

En cada relato de Historias de fantasmas, los personajes se encuentran con alucinaciones, por no llamarlos fantasmas. El escenario de cada momento es narrado por la astucia del escritor de una manera …

Sí…¡de un loco! ¿Como hubiera herido mi corazón esta palabra algunos años ¡ha! Como hubiera despertado el terror que de vez en cuando me acometía, haciendo que la sangre como fuego corriera por mis …

Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las más acabadas representaciones del avaro en la histori …

The tale begins on a ‘cold, bleak, biting’ Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Scrooge’s business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, is established within the first stave a …

Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las más acabadas representaciones del avaro en la histori …

The tale begins on a ‘cold, bleak, biting’ Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Scrooge’s business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, is established within the first stave a …

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Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las más acabadas representaciones del avaro en la histori …

En cada relato, los personajes se encuentran con alucinaciones, por no llamarlos fantasmas. El escenario de cada momento es narrado por la astucia del escritor de una manera muy distintiva, única. Su …

Sí…¡de un loco! ¿Como hubiera herido mi corazón esta palabra algunos años ¡ha! Como hubiera des-pertado el terror que de vez en cuando me acometía, haciendo que la sangre como fuego corriera por mi …

The tale begins on a ‘cold, bleak, biting’ Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Scrooge’s business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, is established within the first stave a …

Philip Pirrip, mejor conocido como ‘Pip’, un niño que vive con su hermana y su cuñado después de la muerte de sus padres, conoce a un viejo convicto que había escapado de un barco-prisión mientras vi …

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My …

Philip Pirrip, mejor conocido como ‘Pip’, un niño que vive con su hermana y su cuñado después de la muerte de sus padres, conoce a un viejo convicto que había escapado de un barco-prisión mientras vi …

No other author made a greater contribution to the literature of Christmas than Charles Dickens. Collected here are twenty-three short works, some on the theme of Christmas, from ‘A Christmas Dinner’ …

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father and siblings. The c …

Roguery and trickery abound around the streets of London with a good dollop of romance and the inevitable Victorian obsession with death. One of Charles Dickens’ little known and best works, Hunted D …

Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His most famous novels include Tale of Two Cities, Ol …

El libro es la narración por parte de David Copperfield de su propia vida, desde su nacimiento hasta su edad madura, y de aquellos que le rodearon, para bien o para mal. Inicia el día en que nació, a …

Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest British writers. He was a social activist who wrote plays and novels during the Victorian period. His most famous novels include Tale of Two Cities, Ol …

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by e …

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charl …

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduct …

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast …

In what may be Dickens’s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman – and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstan …

Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soull …

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edit …

L’histoire s’ouvre une veille de Noël brumeuse dans « un froid vif et perçant », exactement sept années après la mort de Jacob Marley, l’associé d’Ebenezer Scrooge, ce « vieux pécheur […] avare qui s …

L’histoire s’ouvre une veille de Noël brumeuse dans « un froid vif et perçant », exactement sept années après la mort de Jacob Marley, l’associé d’Ebenezer Scrooge, ce « vieux pécheur […] avare qui s …

L’histoire s’ouvre une veille de Noël brumeuse dans « un froid vif et perçant », exactement sept années après la mort de Jacob Marley, l’associé d’Ebenezer Scrooge, ce « vieux pécheur […] avare qui s …

The final and unfinished novel of Charles Dickens, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ begins a tale that revolves around John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, who is the guardian of his orphaned nephe …

Characteristic of Dickens’ later writings, ‘Little Dorrit’ is a social condemnation, particularly of the system of prisons set aside for the debtors of England. Through the memorable characters of Am …

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst times, ‘ so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is a story set in the late 18th century dur …

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for …

Fully entitled ‘Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty, ‘ this novel was Dickens’ first attempt at a historical novel. As such, it is the precursor to his more famous ‘A Tale of Two Cities, ‘ …

‘Great Expectations’ is the classic novel by Charles Dickens that traces the life of an orphan named Pip, beginning at age seven, from Christmas eve 1812 to the winter of 1840. At the center of the n …

‘Hard Times’ is the 1854 novel by Charles Dickens that sought to highlight the social and economic divide that was growing between capitalistic mill owners and workers during the Victorian era of Gre …

Though only the third novel Dickens wrote, ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ is a well-crafted and significant precursor to his other great works. The tale follows the fortunes of the young man Nicholas, the son o …

First published as a weekly serial in 1841, ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ is a novel that details the life of a young orphaned girl named Nell Trent. She lives with her loving grandfather in his London cu …

Widely considered one of Dickens most superb and complete novels, ‘Bleak House’ has a complex plot that contains one of his most elaborate attacks on a flaw of society: the chancery system. The kind …

Charles Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’, which originally appeared in serial format between May 1849 and November 1850, is considered as the most autobiographical of all his novels. A classic ‘Bildungsr …

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come from the Victorian era. He created some of the most iconic characters and sto …

Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ is one of the classic heart warming Christmas stories that have delighted readers for decades. ‘A Christmas Carol’ is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold and bi …

‘A Child’s History of England’, which first appeared serially in ‘Household Words’ between January 25, 1851 and December 10, 1853, is a history of England written for school-aged children. The works …

‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ is Charles Dickens 1845 novella, which marks the third of five Christmas books written by the author between 1843 and 1847. It is the story of John Peerybingle and his fam …

When a rich miser dies, his inheritance is to pass to his estranged son John Harmon, who must return from South Africa to claim it, on condition that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella W …

Charles Dickens ‘The Pickwick Papers’ appeared originally in serial form between March 1836 and October 1837. It is a series of loosely related comical adventures of a cast of exaggerated personaliti …

Regarded by Dickens himself as his best novel upon publication, the experiences of Martin Chuzzlewit relate a tale of familial selfishness and eventual moral redemption. While he is in love with the …

‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dicken’s second novel, is the classic story of the struggles of a young orphan in 19th century England. An early social novel, Dickens draws upon the political issues of child …

While not as well known as ‘The Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’ or ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’; ‘The Battle of Life’ is a charming addition to Dickens’ series of five Christmas books, of which this is …

‘The Chimes’ is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby ‘Trotty’ Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his povert …

‘The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain’ is Charles Dickens 19th century novella that concludes his series of five Christmas books written between 1843 and 1848. It is the story of Professor Redlaw, …

One of the most popular novelists ever, Charles Dickens wrote about what he saw in 19th century London: orphans, child labor, and the crime that was rampant in the city at the time. In the 1861 bests …

Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imaginations long after we’ve read his renowned works of social commentary and v …

Best-selling author Charles Dickens has created some of the world’s most remarkable and memorable characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, and Bob Cratchit–all from his famous …

ORPHANEDat birth and left in the care of a harsh world!PROPELLEDfrom setting to setting, without a place to call home!CRIMINALIZEDthrough an unfortunate misunderstanding!OLIVER TWIST is the journey o …

It put out its strong hand as it spoke, and clasped him gently by the arm. “Rise! and walk with me!” And with this command, Ebenezer Scrooge is transported into the Past, where he will re-live the tr …

Here is A Christmas Treasury for all ages. Included are Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Life and Adven …

Here is the original Christmas classic that is often credited with returning the true spirit of Christmas to the holiday. This edition features the original interior artwork by John Leech. Come spend …

Set in the first half of the 19th century, the classic novel presents the story of young orphan Oliver Twist, who endures tumultuous events in a society burdened by poverty, crime and malice. After b …

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. From its iconic opening line, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst …

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. This vivid and influential story brings Victorian London into sharp focus …

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Charles Dickens’s second novel tells the tale of an orphan’s rise from po …

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. A true Christmas classic for all ages: On Christmas Eve, as the miserly S …

Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, this Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Orphaned, alone, and left at the mercy of a cruel stepfather, David Copp …

Considered by many to be Dickens’ best work, Bleak House focuses its gaze on the British legal system, and does not flinch. A distinctly dissimilar cast of characters find their worlds intertwined by …

A gentleman discovers the black mouth of a railway tunnel. To his amazement, deep in the gorge before the tunnel, he sees an ancient signal-man, who invites him down to a lonely shack. It’s there tha …

A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced …

A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters. Whilst at his parents' graveside, Pip is accosted by Magwitch, a convi …

A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens. In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding d …

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording. All Dickens's marvellous creations are here: Mr Micawber, Uriah Hee …

Charles Dickens’ timeless classic, brought to life in a joyous new adaptation by Jack Thorne. On a bitter Christmas Eve night a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds pas …

One ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge gets the fright of his life, discovers the truth about himself, and learns to love his neighbour. This adaptation by David Edgar …

The second in Dickens’ Christmas novels, The Chimes is the story of a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year’s Eve. In the second o …

Best known for enduring classics such as Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens also wrote a number of short stories and novellas, often neglected today. A House to Let is one such story …

A bold new adaptation of Dickens’ classic from one of Britain’s foremost directors, tying into contemporary issues of global war, refugees, extremism. How much more do those in power think Europe s p …

From the award-winning Regent s Park Open Air Theatre comes a new version of the story of Dickens beloved orphan.The original story of Victorian London’s most famous child. Oliver Twist created for e …

Like most of Dickens’s early works, the novel has a contemporary setting. Much of the action takes place in London, with several chapters taking place in Dickens’s birthplace of Portsmouth, as well a …

Orphaned by his mother’s death in childbirth and his father’s mysterious absence, Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in the care of Mrs Mann. He is later sent to a workhouse and from ther …

Dickens wrote this book for his own children trying to cultivate interest in both history and literature. A Child’s History was included in the curricula of British schoolchildren for more than a hun …

A Tale of Two Cities is one of few works of historical fiction by Charles Dickens. The text relies much on The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle as a historical source. Dickens wrote in …

Barnaby Rudge is Dickens’ first historical novel set in revolutionary times similarly to his other historical text A Tale of Two Cities. Barnaby Rudge, a simpleton, wanders in and out of the story wi …

The central theme of Bleak House is satirical exposure of the English Chancery court system. Chancery or equity courts were one half of the English civil justice system, existing side-by-side with la …

The novel follows the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the web of friends and enemies he mee …

Dombey and Son follows life of Paul Dombey, a wealthy owner of a shipping company. Paul’s dream is to have a son to continue his business. His wife dies in childbirth and Paul ends up with a daughter …

The novel tells a story of personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. Set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century, the novel contains some of Dickens’s most memo …

A wealthy merchant devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fa …

The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors’ prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The p …

Christmas?! What a load of Humbug. Mistletoe and Wine just don’t do it for Scrooge; he’s a workaholic miser with an attitude problem. If he doesn’t change his ways, he’ll end up with no friends and T …

‘Marley was dead to begin with.’ So begins one of the best-loved and famous Christmas stories that has been filmed, inspired musicals, and plays, and still entertains with a timeless story of transfo …

One of the most important novels of its time about love, family, rejection and social order in Dickens’ native England of 19th century. We follow life of 13 years old orphan boy Pip who falls in love …

In 1837 Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old, was asked to ‘tidy up’ Joseph Grimaldi’s autobiography – he ended up re-writing most of it. Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), one of the greatest Engli …

The novel follows several characters including Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, …

A selection of Christmas stories by Charles Dickens, the most widely read English novelist. The stories featured in this collection were written in early Victorian era Britain when it was experiencin …

Frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. These short works display the imagination of a m …

David Copperfield, the personal history, adventures, experience and observation which he never meant to publish on any account. A coming of age story with many elements of the novel following events …

Bleak House is one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story follows long-running litig …

A beautiful and virtuous young girl of not-quite-fourteen, Nell Trent is the novel’s main character. An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather l …

This is a Sovereign Classic bicentennial edition of Dickens’ novel which revolutionised fiction writing of the time through its potent narrative depicting contemporary London life. The story is a seq …

A body is found in the Thames and identified as John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father’s will would require him to marry Bella Wilf …

A powerful, impressive, and enduring tale of ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The book was written in ear …

Hard Times is Dickens’ only novel not to have scenes set in London. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian Coketown and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times. …

Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune. Following his mother’s early death he is soon delivered to the workhouse where he meets the cruel Mr Bumble. In London, Oliver meets the Artful Dodger and …

One New Year’s Eve, Trotty, a ticket-porter or casual messenger, is filled with gloom at the reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers, and wonders whether the working classes are simply wick …

The Cricket on the Hearth is a heartwarming Christmas fairy tale written by Charles Dickens. It tells the story of a poor toymaker and his family who are visited by a magical cricket that brings joy …

Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live happily in an English village with two servants Clemency Newcome and Ben Britain, and their good-natured widower father Dr Jeddler, s a man whose philosophy is to …

Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past life. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw’s phantom twin and is an awful lik …

The first of Dickens’ romances, Nicholas Nickleby is one of his most popular novels. The story follows young Nicholas who has become the head of the family after his father’s death. Penniless and des …

The last of Dickens’ picaresque novels which exposes selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel was written after taking a year off during …

William Dorrit has been a resident of Marshalsea debtors’ prison for so long that his three children – snobbish Fanny, idle Edward and Amy (Little Dorrit) — have all grown up there, although they are …

The final unfinished novel by Charles Dickens leaving the identity of the murderer unresolved. The story is set in Cloisterham, a disguised Rochester. Drood’s uncle, John Jasper is in love with Rosa …

Paul Dombey, a wealthy owner of a shipping company always wanted to have a son to continue his business. When his son is born Dombey’s wife dies shortly after giving birth. Dombey employs a wet nurse …

Charles Dickens wrote this book for his own children hoping to help them bye and bye, to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject. The history covers the period between 50 BC an …

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Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three cronies. One of the t …

Join Dickens on his night walks through London and discover the hidden night life of Victorian society. Dickens often suffered from insomnia and used his night-time wanderings to collect impressions …

“… 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 experien …

Originally published in the 1850 Christmas edition of Dickens’ journal Household Words, A Christmas Tree is considered to be one of Dickens’s more autobiographical pieces. In it, decorations on the C …

Originally published in the 1851 Christmas edition of Dickens’ journal Household Words, What Christmas is as We Grow Older is an essay suggesting that Christmas should be a time of gratitude and forg …

Originally published in the 1852 Christmas edition of Dickens’ journal Household Words, The Poor Relation’s Story takes place during a Christmas feast, where a poor relation of the host tells the sto …

Originally published in the 1852 Christmas edition of Dickens’ journal Household Words, The Child’s Story is the account of a man’s life from childhood to the present as told to his grandson in the f …

Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens’ journal Household Words, The Schoolboy’s Story recounts the tale of Old Cheeseman, a schoolboy who becomes the second Latin Master, and …

Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens’ journal Household Words, Nobody’s Story uses the differences between the Big Wig family and the Nobody family to call attention to class …

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress is Dickens’s second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story centers on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprent …

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 Hear …

In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, is the third of these stories. Following the home life of Jo …

In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of these …

Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens’ eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author’s own life. A coming of age story, it describes David’s life from childhood with …

Published in 1839, Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens’ third novel. In it, Nicholas Nickleby must earn a living to support his mother and sister after his father dies unexpectedly. Turning to a wea …

‘Der Raritätenladen’ ist ein 1840 veröffentlichter Kriminalroman von Charles Dickens. Der Originaltitel lautet ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’. Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym auch ‘Boz’; * …

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the Fre …

‘Oliver Twist, le chef-d’œuvre intemporel de Charles Dickens, est un roman captivant qui plonge les lecteurs dans les rues sombres et impitoyables de Londres au XIXe siècle. L’histoire tourne autour …

Extrait : ‘Le nom de famille de mon père étant Pirrip, et mon nom de baptême Philip, ma langue enfantine ne put jamais former de ces deux mots rien de plus long et de plus explicite que Pip. C’est ai …

Extrait : ‘Serai-je le héros de ma propre histoire ou quelque autre y prendra-t-il cette place ? C’est ce que ces pages vont apprendre au lecteur. Pour commencer par le commencement, je dirai donc qu …

Extrait : ‘Il y avait une fois, dans un coin du Devonshire, un digne gentleman du nom de Godefroy Nickleby qui avait attendu un peu tard pour se marier. Comme il n’était ni assez jeune ni assez riche …

Extrait : ‘Monsieur l’employé ! où sommes-nous donc ? — A l’embranchement de Mugby, monsieur. — Il est bien éventé, ce me semble ? — Oh ! oui, monsieur, il l’est beaucoup en général. — La nuit est-el …

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under t …

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under t …

In his ‘Ghostly little book, ‘ Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and …

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all …

Die Erzählung handelt von Ebenezer Scrooge, einem alten, grantigen Geizhals, der in einer einzigen Nacht zunächst Besuch von seinem verstorbenen Teilhaber Jacob Marley und dann von drei weiteren Geis …

Die Welt der fliegenden Händler ist ein hartes Pflaster für jedermann, der damit seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen will. Sprachliche Gewandtheit, ein Gespür für die Wünsche der Kundschaft und eine Pri …

David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a ca …

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of t …

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für …

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für …

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für …

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für …

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für …

Charles Dickens’ Klassiker in einer modernen Neuübersetzung von Hans-Christian Oeser, die dem Geist des Originals wunderbar treu bleibt! Die bekannte Weihnachtserzählung gehört zum Fest einfach dazu …

Der geizige alte Ebenezer Scrooge mag Weihnachten nicht. Er mag Menschen nicht. Er mag nur Geld. Aber als der Geist seines verstorbenen Freundes Jacob Marley ihn am Heiligabend besucht, ist es der An …

In seinem zweiten und bekanntesten Roman erzählt Dickens, angeregt durch die neuen Armengesetze von 1834, die er scharf attackierte, von den dunklen Schatten, die auf den Glanz der viktorianischen Ze …

Gehört zu jedem Weihnachtsfest: die weltberühmte, bei Groß und Klein beliebte Geschichte von der wundersamen Wandlung des Geizhalses Ebenezer Scrooge. Der Klassiker in neuer Übersetzung von Melanie W …

Politische und gesellschaftliche Themen aufgreifen, Missstände anprangern, Scheinheiligkeiten und Selbstgerechtigkeiten aufdecken – das sind Dinge, die nicht nur dem vielleicht größten Romancier des …

Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur  Der zweite Band der Dickens-Edition im dtv David Copperfield wird nach dem Tod beider Elternteile von seinem Stiefvater auf die Schule des brutalen Mr. Creakle geschi …

Der große englische Klassiker in einer neuen Edition Der große englische Klassiker in einer neuen Edition Der Waisenknabe Oliver Twist wächst im Armenhaus einer Kleinstadt unter dem harten Regiment d …

Dickens berühmte Weihnachtsgeschichte in neuer Übersetzung   »Marley war tot …« – so beginnt eine der berühmtesten und beliebtesten Weihnachtserzählungen der Weltliteratur. Doch nicht nur der Geist …

Dickens dritter großer Entwicklungsroman  In Charles Dickens’ drittem Roman führt der junge Nikolaus Nickleby einen erbitterten Kampf gegen soziale Ungerechtigkeit und ausbeuterische Machenschaften. …

Drei der bedeutendsten Romane der Weltliteratur David Copperfield: David Copperfield wird nach dem Tod beider Elternteile von seinem Stiefvater auf die Schule des brutalen Mr. Creakle geschickt. Dort …

Ein Scrooge, wie ihn noch nie jemand gelesen hat … Die Geschichte vom Misanthrop, der über Nacht geläutert zu einem wohltätigen und freundlichen Mann wird, liegt nun endlich in einer neuen zeitgemäße …

Dieser Band ist eine unnummerierte Sonderausgabe der Insel-Bücherei und textidentisch mit IB089. …

Die beliebteste und meistgelesene Weihnachtserzählung – wunderbar geeignet zum Vorlesen! Ein Scrooge, wie man ihn noch nicht gelesen hat … Ebenezer Scrooge ist ein Geizkragen. Er behandelt seine Mi …

Ebenezer Scrooge ist ein Geizkragen. Er behandelt seine Mitarbeiter schlecht, ist hartherzig gegenüber seinen Schuldnern und hat für seine Mitmenschen außer Mißtrauen nichts übrig. Auch an Weihnachte …

Paris und London während der Französischen Revolution: Als der Franzose Charles Manette von den Revolutionären in Paris zum Tode verurteilt wird, rettet ihm der junge Engländer Sydney das Leben, inde …

Die kleine Nelly lebt bei ihrem Großvater, der in London einen Raritätenladen besitzt. Um die schwierigen Finanzen aufzubessern und den Lebensunterhalt für die kleine Nelly zu sichern, leiht er sich …

Dem Waisenjungen Pip werden »große Erwartungen« eröffnet: Ein unbekannter Gönner will ihn fördern. In London vergißt er sein einfaches Dorfleben und genießt ein verschwenderisches Dasein. Durch das A …

Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Literature, , language: English, abstract: First published in 1844 … Here are not many people—and as it is desira …

Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Literature, , course: -, language: English, abstract: The kettle began it! Don’t tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said …

Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Literature, , language: English, abstract: Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it ma …

Weihnachten ist nichts als »Humbug«, findet der stets schlecht gelaunte Scrooge. Der geizige Geschäftsmann denkt nicht im Traum daran, die Einladung seines Neffen anzunehmen und mit der Familie zu fe …

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous work …

Dickens berühmte Weihnachtsgeschichte erzählt, wie Ebenezer Scrooge von Geistern heimgesucht wird, ehe er imstande ist, Weihnachten richtig zu feiern. …

Oliver, der Junge ohne Eltern wächst zunächst in einem Waisenhaus auf. Als er einem Sargschreiner in die Lehre gegeben wird, und auch da mageres Essen und desto mehr Schläge bekommt, reisst er aus. I …

David Copperfields Lebensgeschichte ist in weiten Teilen diejenige von Charles Dickens. Seine Kindheit, seine Arbeit als Jüngling/Kind in der Fabrik, ebenso seine schriftstellerische Tätigkeit werden …

A Christmas Carol IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but …

A Tale of Two Cities When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing sta …

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming …

In July 1845, Dickens contemplated forming a periodical focusing on the concerns of the home. It was to be called The Cricket, but the plan fell through, and he transformed his idea into a Christmas …

The Utilitarians were one of the targets of this novel. Utilitarianism was a prevalent school of thought during this period, its founders being Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, father to political theo …

Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens’ third published novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with The Pickwick Papers. The story first appe …

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of ‘not quite fourteen.’ An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in …

The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David is born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his fa …

Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures …

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens’s first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the suc …

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast, …

I was chosen Foreman of the Jury. On the second morning of the trial, after evidence had been taken for two hours (I heard the church clocks strike), happening to cast my eyes over my brother jurymen …

Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the c …

There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observa …

Viele Jahre anhaltender Erbschaftsstreit Jarndyce gegen Jarndyce. Esther Summerson wächst bei Miss Barbery – ihrer Tante – auf. Sie kennt Ihre Eltern nicht, erfährt nur, dass ihre Mutter Schande über …

Viele Elemente der Geschichte David Copperfield folgen Ereignissen aus Dickens’ eigenem Leben. David Copperfield gilt daher als autobiographisch geprägte Bildungsroman. David Copperfield erlebt bei s …

Eine Geschichte des Charles Dickens, die den Leser fesselt, ihn mehrfach an der Nase herumführt und am Ende verwirrt zurücklässt: Zum unbestrittenen Kanon der Weltliteratur gehören dieses Werk mit an …

Der Gelehrte Samuel Pickwick ist Gründer und Präsident des Pickwick-Klubs. Das Ziel des Klubs: neue Erkenntnisse sammeln. Pickwick unternimmt mit den Klubmitgliedern Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass …

Eine Kurzgeschichte um den Fahrenden Händler und den Mediziner Doktor Marigold – spannend und vielschichtig, tiefgründig und unterhaltend, informativ und faszinierend ist dieses Machwerk dieses Ausna …

Der Roman über das Leben um den jahrelang unschuldig in der Bastille gefangen gehaltenen Dr. Manette und seiner Tochter Lucy in zwei Städten, London und Paris zur Zeit der Französischen Revolution. U …

Es ist London der 1820er Jahre. Arthur Clennam kommt nach einigen Jahren in seine Heimat zurück. Im Haus seiner wenig wohltätigen und warmherzigen Mutter ist eine junge Näherin, Amy Dorrit. Weshalb h …

Martin Chuzzlewit wird von seinem wohlhabende Großvater und Namensvetter aufgezogen, der davon überzeugt ist, dass jeder hinter seinem Geld her ist. Aus diese Grunde entschloss er sich, eine junge Wa …

Der sozialkritische Gesellschaftsroman – so aktuell wie nie: Nicholas Nicklebys Vater Godfrey Nickleby verspekuliert sich mit Aktiengeschäften. Den Ruin verkraftet er nicht. Nach seinem Tod muss die …

Gesellschaftliche Missstände, die auch heute noch in vielen Teilen der Erde, vereinzelt auch in Deutschland anzutreffen und aktueller denn je sind – hautnah und mit allen Facetten menschlicher Abgrün …

Weihnachts- und Silvestergeschichten wie ‘Der Behexte und der Pakt mit dem Geiste’, ‘Die Silvesterglocken’, ‘Der Weihnachtsabend – eine Geistergeschichte’, ‘Das Heimchen am Herde’, Die Silvester-Gloc …

Das Werk ‘Master Humphrey’s Wanduhr’ ist ein 1840 veröffentlichter Kriminalroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’. Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym …

Das Werk ‘Master Humphrey’s Wanduhr’ ist ein 1840 veröffentlichter Kriminalroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’. Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym …

Das Werk ‘Der Raritätenladen’ ist ein 1840 veröffentlichter Kriminalroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’. Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym auch ‘ …

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in th …

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a coming-of-age novel and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel repre …

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and …

Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. …

David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near G …

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. It is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entir …

The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens’s first novel is a sequence of loosely related adventures. The novel’s main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, and the fo …

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens’s death and his ending for it is unknown. Consequently, the identity of the murderer …

A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the s …

‘NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning a …

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called …

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. Includes all 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the wo …

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark …

Ein Weihnachtslied von Charles Dickens gehört verdientermaßen zur Weltliteratur und wird es wohl auch immer bleiben. Die anderen vierzehn Erzählungen von Dickens und Margarete Lenk stammen aus der gl …

Charles Dickens erster Roman, mit dem er, erst dreiundzwanzigjährig, weltberühmt wurde, in neuer deutscher Rechtschreibung und Korrektur gelesen. …

Den Roman »Dombey und Sohn« schuf Dickens in den Jahren 1846 bis 1848, also nach den »Weihnachtserzählungen« und vor »David Copperfield«. Der damals etwa Fünfunddreißigjährige, auf der Höhe seines Sc …

Der ehrliche Kapitän Cuttle versäumte, obgleich er schon Wochen in seinem befestigten Zufluchtsorte zugebracht hatte, keineswegs die klugen Vorsichtsmaßregeln gegen Überraschung, und ließ sich durch …

Den ersten Lichtstrahl, der die Nacht erhellt und das Dunkel, in das die frühere Geschichte der öffentlichen Laufbahn des unsterblichen Pickwick eingehüllt scheint, in blendenden Glanz verwandelt, er …

Charles Dickens berühmter, autobiografischer Jugendklassiker um den Waisenjungen David Copperfield. Ungekürzt, Korrektur gelesen und in neuer deutscher Rechtschreibung. …

Charles Dickens berühmter zweiter Roman um den zu Unrecht ins Armenhaus gesteckten und gepeinigten Waisenjungen Oliver Twist. Ungekürzt, Korrektur gelesen und in neuer deutscher Rechtschreibung. …

Als Nikolas Nicklebys Vater stirbt, geraten er und seine Schwester Kate in die Gewalt ihres schurkischen Onkels Ralph. Charles Dickens’ dritter Fortsetzungsroman, ein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur un …

Bei jeder Schurkentat hat der zwergenhafte Wucherer Quilp seine Hand im Spiel! Die kleine Nell und ihren Großvater stürzt er ins Elend, sodass sie als Bettler die Flucht ergreifen; dem Jungen Kit, de …

‘A Christmas Carol’ is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. ‘Carol’ tells t …

« Un chant de Noël » (« A Christmas Carol »), également publié en français sous les titres « Cantique de Noël », « Chanson de Noël » ou « Conte de Noël », est le premier et le plus célèbre des contes …

Il ‘Canto di Natale’ (‘A Christmas Carol: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In’), noto anche come ‘Cantico di Natale’, ‘Ballata di Natale’ o ‘Racconto di Natale’, …

‘Canción de Navidad’, ‘Cuento de Navidad’ o ‘El cántico de Navidad’, cuyo título original en inglés es ‘A Christmas Carol’, es una novela corta escrita por el británico Charles Dickens y publicada or …

Diese Ausgabe enthält zehn Weihnachtsgeschichten von Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym auch Boz; * 7. Februar 1812 in Landport bei Portsmouth, England; † 9. Juni 1870 …

‘A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas’ (wörtlich ‘Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa’, oder ‘Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest’’, deutsch meist ‘Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte’) ist e …

‘A Christmas Carol’ is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. ‘Carol’ tells t …

‘David Copperfield’, (Originaltitel ‘David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant t …

‘Oliver Twist’ ist ein Gesellschaftsroman von Charles Dickens, der unter dem vollständigen Titel ‘Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress’ (‘Oliver Twist oder der Weg des Fürsorgezöglings’) von F …

‘Die Pickwickier’, in deutscher Übersetzung zunächst ‘Die Pickwicker’, Originaltitel ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’, besser bekannt als ‘The Pickwick Papers’, ist der erste Roman von Ch …

‘Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten’ (Originaltitel: ‘A Tale of Two Cities’) ist ein historischer Roman von Charles Dickens. Geschrieben 1859, ist das Buch mit über 200 Millionen verkauften Ausgaben da …

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Eine Geschichte des Charles Dickens, die den Leser fesselt, ihn mehrfach an der Nase herumführt und am Ende verwirrt zurücklässt: Zum unbestrittenen Kanon der Weltliteratur gehören dieses Werk mit an …

Oliver Twist wächst als Findelkind im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt auf. Die Kinder stehen unter dem unbarmherzigen Regiment des Mr. Bumble. Als Oliver gegen die knapp bemessenen Essensration …

‘Schwere Zeiten’ ist ein Roman von Charles Dickens. Der Originaltitel lautet ‘Hard Times’. …

Charles Dickens lässt die Leser in seinem historischen Roman »Geschichte aus zwei Städten« in die Wirren der französischen Revolution eintauchen. In Revolutionschaos versucht ein Liebespaar, zueinand …

Nach dem frühen Tod des Vaters lebt David bei seiner Mutter und seinem Stiefvater. Die Verhältnisse sind schwierig. Der Stiefvater neigt zur Gewalt. Auch in Davids Schule herrscht ein rauer Umgangsto …

‘A Christmas Carol’ is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. ‘Carol’ tells t …

Il ‘Canto di Natale’ (‘A Christmas Carol: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In’), noto anche come ‘Cantico di Natale’, ‘Ballata di Natale’ o ‘Racconto di Natale’, …

‘ Un chant de Noël ‘ (‘ A Christmas Carol ‘), également publié en français sous les titres ‘ Cantique de Noël ‘, ‘ Chanson de Noël ‘ ou ‘ Conte de Noël ‘, est le premier et le plus célèbre des contes …

‘A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas’ (wörtlich ‘Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa’, oder ‘Eine Geistergeschichte zum Christfest”, deutsch meist ‘Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte’) ist e …

‘Canción de Navidad’, ‘Cuento de Navidad’ o ‘El cántico de Navidad’, cuyo título original en inglés es ‘A Christmas Carol’, es una novela corta escrita por el británico Charles Dickens y publicada or …

Charles Dickens tells a mysterious Christmas-Story … Das E-Book A Christmas Carol wird angeboten von Books on Demand und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Marley, Scrooge, Spirit, Merry …

Weihnachten zu Zeiten Queen Victorias. Kobolde, Geister und Gespenster treiben in den Weihnachtserzählungen ihr wundersames Spiel mit den Menschen. In Scharen steigen sie kettenrasselnd aus dunklen K …

„Der Romancier mit dem dramatischen Genie.“ Die Zeit. Der Besitzer des Raritätenladens, der alte Trent, verschwindet täglich gegen Mitternacht und kehrt erst im Morgengrauen heim. Warum lässt er die …

Ein neuer Dickens! Von den frustrierenden Erfahrungen eines jungen Mannes, der gerade Vater geworden ist; den trickreichen Bemühungen eines verzweifelten Autors, seine Manuskripte loszuwerden; einem …

Wie gebannt steht der kleine Pip in dem geheimnisumwitterten Haus der reichen Miss Havisham und bestaunt eine mit Staub bedeckte Hochzeitstafel. Die exzentrische alte Besitzerin empfängt ihn bei Kerz …

„Der große viktorianische Erzähler.“ Die Welt. Den Namen Oliver Twist hat Mr. Bumble, der Kirchspielbüttel, für das im Armenhaus geborene Kind erfunden, dessen Mutter starb, bevor sie Aufschluß über …

Der unbekannte Dickens Kleine Kabinettstücke des größten englischen Romanciers in neuer Übersetzung Kobolde entführen einen griesgrämigen, bösartigen Totengräber und bewegen ihn auf recht drastische …

Charles Dickens ist dafür bekannt, dem Leser auf humorvoll-nachdenkliche, hin und wieder spitzfindige Art die Augen für die Missstände der Gesellschaft zu öffnen. Sein Werk bietet Leselust mit Nachha …

Der Chemiker Redlaw, der immer öfter über ihm geschehenes Unrecht und seine Traurigkeit sinniert, wird eines Abends von einem Geist besucht. Sein Leben beginnt sich zu verändern … …

Der Roman erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von David Copperfield, hinter dem sich der Autor selbst in verfremdeter Form verbirgt. Man erfährt von David Copperfields Werdegang und langsamem Erwachsenwerde …

Mr. Dombey ist Unternehmer und vom Erfolg seiner Firma geradezu besessen. Von Geburt an ist sein Sohn dazu bestimmt, einmal seinen Platz einzunehmen. Aber Dombey hat auch eine Tochter, dessen Liebe e …

Band 1 des vielleicht schönsten Romans von Charles Dickens: Klein Dorrit lebt mit ihrer Familie im Schuldgefängnis. Anders als ihre Geschwister beklagt das Mädchen sein Schicksal nicht, sondern hilft …

Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten (Originaltitel: A Tale of Two Cities) ist ein historischer Roman von Charles Dickens. Geschrieben 1859, ist das Buch mit über 200 Millionen verkauften Ausgaben das me …

Joseph Grimaldi (geboren 18. Dezember 1778 in London; gestorben 31. Mai 1837 ebenda) war der Erfinder des modernen Clowns. Grimaldis in zwei Bänden erschienene Memoiren (1838) wurden von Charles Dick …

Das Heimchen am Herde, Originaltitel The Cricket on the Hearth, ist eine Erzählung von Charles Dickens aus dem Jahr 1845. Cricket on the Hearth ist eine Geschichte über das Glück, das die Grillen im …

Eine weitere Weihnachtsgeschichte des berühmten englischen Schriftstellers, der mit der Erzählung über den Geizhals Ebenezer Scrooge den Klassiker schlechthin geliefert hat. …

Dickens erzählt Anekdoten und Begebenheiten aus der Weltstadt London, und das mit seiner ganz eigenen Art mit einer Fülle und Mannigfaltigkeit urkomischer und humoristischer Personen und Situationen, …

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Leben und Abenteuer des Martin Chuszlewit), bekannter als Martin Chuzzlewit, ist ein Roman von Charles Dickens und gilt als der letzte seiner Schelmenrom …

Der sozialkritische Gesellschaftsroman spielt um das Jahr 1830 und beginnt mit dem Tod von Nikolas Nicklebys Vater Godfrey Nickleby. Godfrey hatte sich bei Aktiengeschäften verspekuliert und den Ruin …

Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufwächst, ohne etwas über seine Herkunft zu wissen. Durch die katastroph …

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 …

Der Roman beschreibt die Kindheit zweier Geschwister, die es mit den Ansichten ihres Vaters nicht einfach haben. Einer der echten Klassiker des Verfassers der ‘Weihnachtsgeschichte’.. …

Ein echter Klassiker für Dickens-Fans ist dieses Märchen von Glocken, die ein altes Jahr aus- und ein neues Jahr einläuten. Wie auch die ‘Weihnachtsgeschichte’ exzellent geschrieben. …

Eine Liebes- und Weihnachtsgeschichte aus der Hand des Meisters, der mit der ‘Weihnachtsgeschichte’ um Ebenezer Scrooge einen Klassiker aller Zeiten verfasst hat. …

Bleakhaus ist ein Gesellschaftsroman von Charles Dickens. Die Rahmenhandlung bildet ein viele Jahre anhaltender Erbschaftsstreit Jarndyce gegen Jarndyce. Dickens erzählt hierbei die Geschichte vieler …

Dickens hatte Zeit seines Lebens ein Faible für Geschichten rund um Weihnachten und die stille Zeit. Neben dem selbstverständlich auch hier enthaltenen ‘Der Weihnachtsabend’, auch bekannt als ‘Eine W …

‘Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’ is the one novel of Dickens that abounds neither in pathetic, grewsome, nor dramatic passages. It is pure fun from beginning to end, with a laugh on every pag …

‘Sketches By Boz’ is a collection of 56 sketches concerning London scenes and inhabitants. Most of the stories, that are divided into four sections, are portraits, but there are also some purely fict …

Oliver Twist was published in 1838. This story shows in vivid colors the miseries ofthe pauper’s home where the inmates are robbed and starved, while the dead are hurried into unhonored graves; the h …

‘Nicholas Nickleby’ combined the comic and the sensational elements for the first time, and is still the type of Dickens’s longer books, in which the strain of violent pathos or sinister mystery is i …

A whole generation, on either side of the Atlantic, used to fall sobbing at the name of Little Nell, which will hardly bring tears to the eyes of any one now, though it is still apparent that the chi …

Barnaby Rudge was Dickens’s fifth novel, and was published in 1841. The plot is extremely intricate. Barnaby is a poor half-witted lad, living in London toward the close of the eighteenth century, wi …

The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens’ last novel and remained – unfortunately – unfinished. There was a lot of discussion about what Dickens could have had in his mind as solution for the p …

The issue of a new edition of Martin Chuzzlewit tempts us to devote a few words to the consideration of what we venture to think the most brilliant and entertaining of all the works of Mr. Dickens. T …

Since the voyage of Columbus in search of the New World, and of Raleigh in quest of El Dorado, no visit to America has excited so much interest and conjecture as that of the author of ‘Oliver Twist.’ …

The story opens with the death of Mrs. Dombey, who has left her husband the proud possessor of a baby son and heir. He neglects his daughter Florence and loves Paul, in whom all his ambitions and wor …

‘Of all my books, ‘ says Charles Dickens in his preface to this immortal novel, ‘I like this the best. . . . Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is Dav …

One theme of this story is the monstrous injustice and even ruin that could be wrought by the delays in the old Court of Chancery, which defeated all the purposes of a court of justice; but the roman …

Little Dorrit was published 1856-57, when the author’s popularity was at its height. The plot is a slight one on which to hang more than fifty characters. The author began with the intention of empha …

A Tale of Two Cities differs essentially from all of Dickens’ other novels in style and manner of treatment. Forster, in his ‘Life of Dickens, ‘ writes that ‘there is no instance in his novels except …

Dickens’s tenth novel, was published in 1861, nine years before his death. As in ‘David Copperfield, ‘ the hero tells his own story from boyhood. Yet in several essential points ‘Great Expectations’ …

‘In these times of ours, ‘ are the opening words of this book, which was published in England in 1864-65. The scene is laid in London and its immediate neighborhood. All the elaborate machinery dear …

‘The Christmas Books’ is a beautifully arranged compilation of all of Mr. Dickens’ Christmas novels, short storys and narratives. It contains the following works: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cri …

When ‘Hard Times’ appeared as a serial in Household Words in 1854, Dickens was about midway in his literary career. In the same year this novel appeared in an octavo volume with a dedication to Thoma …

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of Dickens’s memories rather than of his literary purposes; but it is due to him to say that memory is often more startling in him than prophecy in anybody …

The Pictures from Italy are excellent in themselves and excellent as a foil to the American Notes. Here we have none of that air of giving a decision like a judge or sending in a report like an inspe …

A collection of Dickens’ books would not be complete without this historical work for children which sometimes reads more like a fairytale. In his own very special writing the author runs the child t …

‘Geschichten für schlaflose Nächte’ bietet Ihnen die schönsten, gruseligsten, unheimlichsten und atemberaubendsten Kurzgeschichten der okkulten und übernatürlichen Belletristik. Klassiker des Horror- …

This compilation includes the following of Dickens’ beautiful Christmas tales: A Christmas Tree What Christmas Is As We Grow Older The Poor Relation’s Story The Child’s Story The Schoolboy’s Story No …

Gegen Ende des Jahres 1843 schrieb Dickens diesen Pionier aller Weihnachtserzählungen, um ausstehende Schulden aus seiner inzwischen verschwenderischen Haushaltsführung zu begleichen – ‘Eine Weihnach …

‘Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte’, auch bekannt als ‘Der Weihnachtsabend’, dürfte das mit Abstand bekannteste Werk des englischen Autors Charles Dickens sein. Er schrieb es bereits im Jahr 1843. Diese hier …

Oliver Twist ist ein Buch der Überraschungen und Wendungen. Die Personen sind klar gezeichnet. Da ist Oliver selbst, der unter schlimmsten Umständen die Ehre seiner Mutter verteidigt, da ist Nancy, e …

The combined qualities of the realist and the idealist which Dickens possessed to a remarkable degree, together with his naturally jovial attitude toward life in general, seem to have given him a rem …

Oliver Twist ist ein Buch der Überraschungen und Wendungen. Die Personen sind klar gezeichnet. Da ist Oliver selbst, der unter schlimmsten Umständen die Ehre seiner Mutter verteidigt, da ist Nancy, e …

Mit 24 Original Zeichnungen von George Cruikshank Dies ist die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der ohne Kenntnisse über seine Herkunft im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinst …

Mit 24 Original Zeichnungen von George Cruikshank Dies ist die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der ohne Kenntnisse über seine Herkunft im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinst …

Der alte Scrooge ist wahrhaftig ein geiziger Mensch. Die Kälte in seinem Herzen weicht noch nicht einmal zur Weihnachtszeit. Doch als ihm die drei Geister der vergangenen, der diesjährigen und der zu …

Der beliebte Jugendklassiker von Charles Dickens! Im England der Industrialisierung wird David Copperfield geboren. Sein Leben wird vom Tag seiner Geburt aufgezeichnet – leidvoll, ergreifend, spannen …

Der Weihnachtsklassiker von Dickens. Erzählt wird, wie am Heiligen Abend dem alten Geizhals Ebenezer Scrooge der Geist seines verstorbenen Geschäftspartners Marley erscheint. Der Geist prophezeit Scr …

Der Weihnachtsklassiker von Dickens. Erzählt wird, wie am Heiligen Abend dem alten Geizhals Ebenezer Scrooge der Geist seines verstorbenen Geschäftspartners Marley erscheint. Der Geist prophezeit Scr …

‘Die Pickwickier’ ist der erste Roman von Charles Dickens. Mit ihm begründete er seinen literarischen Ruhm. Das humoristische Werk, zwischen 1836 und 1837 als zwanzigteiliger Fortsetzungsroman veröff …

‘Die Pickwickier’ ist der erste Roman von Charles Dickens. Mit ihm begründete er seinen literarischen Ruhm. Das humoristische Werk, zwischen 1836 und 1837 als zwanzigteiliger Fortsetzungsroman veröff …

‘David Copperfield’ ist einer der bekanntesten Bildungsromane überhaupt. Viele Elemente der Geschichte folgen Ereignissen aus Dickens' eigenem Leben, ‘David Copperfield’ gilt daher als der am st …

‘David Copperfield’ ist einer der bekanntesten Bildungsromane überhaupt. Viele Elemente der Geschichte folgen Ereignissen aus Dickens' eigenem Leben, ‘David Copperfield’ gilt daher als der am st …

Mit 40 Zeichnungen Bleak House ist der neunte Roman von Charles Dickens. Ein viele Jahre anhaltender Erbschaftsstreit und eine verschleierte Herkunft stellen die Rahmenhandlung für diese Geschichte, …

Mit 40 Zeichnungen Bleak House ist der neunte Roman von Charles Dickens. Ein viele Jahre anhaltender Erbschaftsstreit und eine verschleierte Herkunft stellen die Rahmenhandlung für diese Geschichte, …

Neu überarbeitete Fassung der deutschen Erstübersetzung. Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations) ist der dreizehnte Roman von Charles Dickens. Der siebenjährige Waisenjunge Philip Pirrip, genannt Pip, …

Neu überarbeitete Fassung der deutschen Erstübersetzung. Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations) ist der dreizehnte Roman von Charles Dickens. Der siebenjährige Waisenjunge Philip Pirrip, genannt Pip, …

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Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent’s unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew f …

ie beiden Romane "Die Armut" und "Der Reichtum" erzahlen die bewegte Geschichte der 20-jahrigen Amy Dorrit – die wegen ihrer zierlichen Erscheinung von Allen "Little Dorrit&q …

Die beiden Romane »Die Armut« und »Der Reichtum« erzählen die bewegte Geschichte der 20-jährigen Amy Dorrit – die wegen ihrer zierlichen Erscheinung von allen »Little Dorrit (Die kleine Dorrit)« gena …

Oliver Twist, Sohn unbekannter Eltern, wächst im Armenhaus einer Kleinstadt unter dem harten Regiment des selbstgefälligen Mr. Bumble auf. Er kommt zu einem Leichenbestatter in die Lehre, flieht ohne …

Mit dem stark autobiografisch geprägten Roman ‘David Copperfield’, den er selbst als seinen ‘Lieblingsroman’ bezeichnete, schuf Charles Dickens einen der wenigen großen Bildungsromane der englischen …