Charles Dickens

Charles Dickensin rakastettu klassikkotarina palauttaa mieliin joulun todellisen sanoman. Kertomuksessa katkeroitunut vanha kitupiikki Ebenezer Scrooge kohtaa menneisyytensä haamut. Matkattuaan halki menneiden ja tulevien joulujen ylimielinen Scrooge oppii, mikä elämässä on oikeasti tärkeää: välittäminen, jakaminen ja toisten ihmisten kunnioittaminen. Vuonna 1843 julkaistu Saiturin joulu on yksi luetuimmista englanninkielisistä tarinoista ja monille olennainen osa joulun perinteitä. Uusi, ajanmukainen käännös Dickensin ikivihreästä kertomuksesta on helposti lähestyttävä myös nuoremmille lukijoille.

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This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition. The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's American tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from "American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more English reading tours before his collapse at Preston on 22 April 1869. In early January 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on 31 March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by Luke Fildes; it continued monthly until 31 August. Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel Maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870.

This volume presents 1,251 letters, 447 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855; it also includes, as a substantial Appendix of Addenda, over 280 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes. The period is one of activity remarkable even for Dickens. Besides the continuous editing of Household Words (where his Hard Times appears as a weekly serial), he is still at work on Bleak House until August 1853 and in 1855 is writing the early numbers of Little Dorrit. He manages and acts in children's plays in his little Tavistock House theatre on Twelfth Night, and later takes the leading part in Wilkie Collins's drama The Lighthouse with great effect. Work with Miss Coutts and the troublesome inmates of her `Home' increases, and readings for charity have begun. The Crimean war and the government's mismanagement receive much comment in letters and satirical articles, and lead to one exceptional venture into political life with a speech for the Administrative Reform Association. But his long and happy periods of residence in France with his family encourage a more detached view, and he also revisits Switzerland and Italy on a two-month tour with Collins and the painter Augustus Egg. Friends and family still dominate his personal life, but for a few weeks long-past emotions are revived when he hears from his old love Maria Beadnell, now a middle-aged Mrs Winter.

This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records Dickens's writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, both published weekly in All the Year Round: the letters give an unusual insight into the inspiration for both. It also shows him planning planning and writing a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, `A Haunted House', `A Message from the Sea', and `Tom Tiddler's Ground'. He expends great energy in establishing All the Year Round, to succeed Household Words, and during 1860 writes the first fourteen of his Uncommercial Traveller series. During these three years he gives two provincial tours of readings, in addition to readings in London. He spends a considerable part of his time at Gad's Hill, relying on his daughter Mamie and sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth to act as hostesses; the All the Year Round office becomes his London base. Ellen Ternan continues to act, though with diminishing success; in January 1859 Dickens almost certainly buys a long lease of 2 Houghton Place, Ampthill Square, for the Ternan family.

This eighth volume presents about 1,500 letters many of them unpublished, from the years 1856 to 1858. This period includes several major changes in Dickens's public and private life, notably in 1858 when he separates from his wife and starts a new career of paid readings from his works. But throughout 1856 and part of 1857, his main preoccupation is the writing of his monthly serial Little Dorrit; for much of 1856 he continues to reside happily in France with his family, both in Boulogne and Paris, giving racy accounts of its theatres and his meetings with writers and artists. At his own amateur theatricals in 1857, his great success in Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep has lasting consequences; at the close of his work for the Douglas Jerrold Fund, the play is repeated with professional actresses, including three members of the Ternan family. Later rumours of his relations with a young actress (Ellen Ternan) provoke him to an ill-advised public statement which leads to a breach with his publishers and with one of his closest friends, Mark lemon. Finally, he embarks on the first of many strenuous reading tours, giving 85 readings in over 40 towns, all within three months. His usual activities are not neglected: he makes many speeches for good causes, and continues to edit Household Words (and its successor All the Year Round), with help from his friend and assistant editor Wills. Throughout, there is new material, both in the letters and in the editors' annotation, with some fresh interpretation of controversial matters.

This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine.

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, the second volume of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, is Dickens's third novel, originally published in monthly parts between March 1838 and September 1839. Brilliantly comic, the novel quickly developed a strong strand of social criticism, exploring themes such as love and family, selfishness, work, and charity. It showcases a host of characters, from the earnest and passionate young hero Nicholas, the pathetic Smike, and the brutal schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, to sparkling minor players like John Browdie, Mrs. Squeers, Mr. Mantalini, Mr. Crummles, and the infuriatingly inept Mrs. Nickleby. Solidifying the reputation for comedy and pathos Dickens had established with The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, this novel reached—and delighted—the widest audience Dickens had yet known. The manuscript of Nicholas Nickleby survives only in fragments, with the British Library, the Charles Dickens Museum, and The Rosenbach library holding substantial portions, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Morgan Library also holding pages. This edition is presented in two volumes: the text in Volume I and Essay on the Text and Notes in Volume 2. The editors have closely examined all the surviving manuscript, recovering scores of deletions and recording all variants of wording in the textual apparatus. The text is based on that of the original serial instalments; all emendations from that text are fully documented. All lifetime British editions (the Cheap, the Library, the Illustrated Library, the People's and the Charles Dickens) have been carefully collated, and all verbal variants are recorded.

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This volume presents 918 letters, 435 previously unpublished, for the years 1862 to 1864. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's main work in the period, comes out monthly from 30 April 1864 to 31 October 1865, illustrated by Marcus Stone, son of Dickens's old friend, the painter Frank Stone; a series of new letters to him shows the immense care Dickens took over his illustrations. The three All the Year Round Christmas numbers, "Somebody's Luggage", "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" and "Mrs. irriper's Legacy", take up much of his energies and are highly successful. Public readings do not occupy so much of his time as in the last volume; but he completes his second provincial tour in January 1862; gives two series weekly in London; and reads for charity in both Rochester and Paris. He declines an offer of £10,000 for an eight months' reading tour in Australia. Gad's Hill plays an increasingly major part in his life: he entertains many of his friends there and makes constant improvements to it. But there is no other period in which he pays so many visits to France, generally alone. The deliberately mystifying language he uses about these visits suggests he was seeing Ellen Ternan either in Paris or Boulogne or both, but there is no evidence to prove it. Long letters to his Swiss friend, W. W. F. de Cerjat, testify to his concern with public issues; several show how much he hated the American Civil War.

Rakkaus vie voiton rahasta myös jouluna. Viktoriaanisen ajan ikoninen joulukertomus upporikkaasta kitupiikistä, aaveista ja joulun ihmeitä tekevästä voimasta. Vanhaa Ebenezer Scroogea kiinnostaa vain ja ainoastaan raha - julma saituri ei piittaa perheestään, alaisistaan eikä kenestäkään muusta. Hänestä huokuu kylmyys eikä lämpö häntä lämmitä, ja joulun iloinen sanoma on ukosta pelkkää hölynpölyä. Eräänä jouluyönä Scrooge saa kettinkien kalinan saatteleman varoituksen. Joulujen henget ilmestyvät ukko Scroogelle ja näyttävät hänelle kukin vuorollaan tapahtumia hänen jouluistaan - menneistä, nykyisestä ja tulevista. Englantilainen romaanikirjailija Charles Dickens (1812—1870) julkaisi viisi joulukirjaa, joista ensimmäinen oli Joululaulu. Se ilmestyi jouluksi 1843 ja saavutti heti suunnattoman menestyksen. Dickensin kertomus inspiroi myös Carl Barksia luomaan suomalaisten rakkaimman saiturin, Roope Ankan eli Uncle Scroogen. Tarina on esitetty lukuisia kertoja teattereiden, oopperoiden ja balettien lavoilla ja kuuluu joulutarinoiden kirkkaimpaan kaanoniin.

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This eleventh volume presents 1158 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1865 to 1867. Dickens's main work in the period is the completion of the monthly parts of Our Mutual Friend (final part 31 October 1865, for November); unusually, it comes out in two volumes (January and November 1865) during the period of its run. The three All the Year Round Christmas numbers, `Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions', `Mugby Junction', and `No Thoroughfare' (written jointly with Wilkie Collins) are again highly successful. He remains in high demand as chairman of a varied collection of public charitable dinners: they include charities to which he was constantly faithful, such as the Newsvendors' Benevolent Institution and the Royal General Theatrical Fund; but he also presides, for the only time, at the Annual Dinner of the Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund Association (14 February 1866) and - at the instigation of Charley Dickens, a keen oarsman and Committee member - at the Dinner of the Metropolitan Rowing Club (7 May 1866), making a particularly brilliant speech. The first reference to his swollen left foot, attributed by him to frost-bite, comes in February 1865; but the most dramatic event in this volume is the railway accident at Staplehurst, Kent, on 9 June 1865, in which he is involved on returning from a short visit to France, accompanied by Ellen Ternan and her mother. The frontispiece shows him helping the injured and dying. He gives two provincial reading tours managed by George Dolby of Chappell & Co., in 1866 and 1867, besides frequent readings in London. After a Farewell Dinner to him in London, with Lord Lytton in the Chair, he sails on 9 November 1867 from Liverpool to Boston, to begin his American tour of 75 readings.

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Sketches by Boz, the first volume of the new Oxford Dickens, was also the title of Dickens's first book. It is a collection of sixty pieces, mostly humorous although there is nothing funny about 'A Visit to Newgate', which first appeared as contributions to magazines and newspapers in the mid 1830s. They are distinguished by his sharp and often satirical observation of social situations and London characters; but, with one exception, they are works of fiction. Fourteen can be described as short stories, but most are sketches presented to us as reportage. They show why Dickens was recognised as a brilliant new talent from the outset of his career. In the absence of any manuscripts, the text of each piece (with one exception) is based upon the first published version. They offer Dickens as he appeared to his very first readers in the mid 1830s, and as he has not been seen since. Dickens edited later editions, cutting contemporary references, oaths and sexual innuendo. The consequence of reading Dickens as he was is startling, for these pieces both offer a direct reflection of the social scene in London of the period, and have a raciness which Dickens excised from later printings. This work rediscovers the young Dickens.

Tässä teoksessa ahkerana patikoijana ja matkailijana tunnettu Charles Dickens (1812-1870) kuvailee kävelyretkiään kotikaupungissaan Lontoossa. Dickens harhailee unettomana suurkaupungin kaduilla ja kohtaa niin osattomuutta ja kodittomuutta kuin hilpeyttä ja juopumustakin. Dickens esittäytyy mestarillisena esseistinä, ja viktoriaaninen Lontoo piirtyy lukijan eteen tarkasti ja elävästi, kaikessa kau- neudessaan ja julmuudessaan. Charles John Huffam Dickens oli englannin viktoriaanisen kauden kirjailijoista tunnetuin. Hänen teoksensa ilmestyivät sanomalehdissä jatkokertomuksina ja julkaistiin valtavina tii- liskiviromaaneina. Hänet tunnetaan etenkin lasten maailman ja sen julmuuden tarkkanäköisenä kuvaajana. Dickensin tunnetuimpia teoksia ovat Pickwick-kerhon jälkeenjääneet paperit (1836-1837), Oliver Twist (1837-1839) ja Saiturin joulu (1843). Kävelyretkiä Lontoon kaduilla -teoksen esseet jul- kaistiin alun perin sanomalehdissa ja myöhemmin muun muassa kokoelmassa The Uncommercial Traveller, ja ne ilmestyvät nyt ensi kertaa suomeksi.

"A Christmas Carol" is a 1843 novella by Charles Dickens. It tells the tale of an elderly miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who is transformed into a kinder, gentler man after receiving visitations from his former partner Jacob Marley, together with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Originally published on the 19th December, the first edition had sold out by Christmas Eve, with a majority of critics giving it agreeable reviews. The story has never been out of print and has been adapted numerous times for film and stage. A classic of English literature and a must-read for fans and collectors of Dickens's seminal work. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic famous for having created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters. His works became unprecedentedly popular during his life, and today he is commonly regarded as the greatest Victorian-era novelist. Although perhaps better known for such works as "Oliver Twist" or "Great Expectations", Dickens first gained success with the 1836 serial publication of "The Pickwick Papers", which turned him almost overnight into an international literary celebrity thanks to his humour, satire, and astute observations concerning society and character. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter from "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens" by G. K. Chesterton.

Oikeussali- ja rikosromaanien edelläkävijä Lontoon sumuistaKolea talo on runsas ja jännittävä kudelma rakkaustarinaa, oikeusdraamaa ja jopa murhamysteeriä. Dickensin terävä satiiri ja myötätuntoinen huumori välittyvät tyylikkäästi Kersti Juvan erinomaisesta suomennoksesta. Jarndyce vastaan Jarndycen oikeudenkäynti on jatkunut vuosikymmeniä ja sille nauraa jo koko Lontoo. John Jarndyce on itsekin jo menettänyt toivonsa, kun hän ottaa kolme nuorta asumaan kotiinsa Koleaan taloon - sukulaisensa Richard Carstonen ja Ada Claren sekä holhokkinsa orpotyttö Estherin. Richard ja Adakin ovat eläneet oikeudenkäynnin varjossa koko ikänsä, ja John rohkaisee heitä elämään omaa elämäänsä rahoja miettimättä. Kolean talon viihtyisässä ilmapiirissä nuoret ystävystyvät nopeasti ja Richard ja Ada rakastuvat. Richard ei kuitenkaan osaa asettua aloilleen, vaan ajelehtii ammatista toiseen, kunnes ajatus perinnöstä alkaa hallita hänen mieltään ja hän käy uuvuttavaan oikeustaistoon. Toinen juonikuvio kertoo kylmästä ja kauniista Lady Dedlockista, jonka kopea käytös kätkee kauhistuttavan salaisuuden. Nämä kaksi tarinaa yhtyvät yllättävään loppuhuipentumaan, johon Dickens kuljettaa lukijan läpi kuohuvan viktoriaanisen Englannin.