Charles Dickens

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 the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution.

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings is a short story by Charles Dickens. This story is an involving people thrown together by chance, that moves from the squalors of Victorian London to the sunnier climes of southern France. Mrs. Lirriper, recently widowed, devotes her energies to attending to the needs of her assorted lodgers; but when a newborn child is abandoned to her care, her responsibilities grow to new levels...

Charles John Huffam Dickens pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories has meant that none have ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, which was the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories would be eagerly anticipated by the reading public.

Charles John Huffam Dickens pen-name "Boz", was the fore-most English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of memorable characters and his powerful social sensibilities. The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories has meant that none have ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, which was the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories would be eagerly anticipated by the reading public.

Novela publicada originalmente por Chapman & Hall el 19 de diciembre de 1843. Cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y ego sta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su transformaci n tras ser visitado por una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. La novela consigui un inmediato xito y el aplauso de la cr tica.

Novela publicada originalmente por Chapman & Hall el 19 de diciembre de 1843. Cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y ego sta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su transformaci n tras ser visitado por una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. La novela consigui un inmediato xito y el aplauso de la cr tica.

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 his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars.

Grandes esperanzas (en ingl s, Great Expectations) es una novela escrita por Charles Dickens. Fue publicada como serie, desde el 1 de diciembre de 1860 hasta el agosto de 1861, en la revista literaria All the Year Round, fundada por el propio Dickens el a o anterior. La novela narra la historia Phillip Pirrip, un hu rfano aprendiz de herrero cuya aspiraci n pasar a ser convertirse en un noble caballero, describiendo su vida desde su ni ez hasta su madurez. Se puede decir que se trata de un Bildungsroman o novela de aprendizaje. La historia puede tambi n ser considerada como una semiautobiograf a de Dickens, al igual que muchas de sus obras, en la cual mezcla sus experiencias de vida con su entorno social. La trama de la historia toma desde la v spera de Navidad de 1812, cuando el protagonista tiene solo siete a os de edad, hasta el invierno de 1840.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 June 1870) and his ending for it is unknown. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on Drood's uncle, precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Drood's fianc e, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless, who comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances.

L'histoire33 s'ouvre une veille de No l brumeuse dans un froid vif et per ant, exactement sept ann es apr s la mort de Jacob Marley, l'associ d'Ebenezer Scrooge, ce vieux p cheur ...] avare qui savait saisir fortement, arracher, tordre, pressurer, gratter, ne point l cher surtout Dur et tranchant comme une pierre fusil dont jamais l'acier n'a fait jaillir une tincelle g n reuse, secret, renferm en lui-m me et solitaire comme une hu tre 34. Scrooge ne conna t ni la bont , ni la bienveillance, ni la charit , et il d teste No l qu'il qualifie de foutaises (humbug). Toujours assis son bureau, le feu r duit quelques braises, il n'a cure du froid qui oblige pourtant son employ Bob Cratchit, aussi surmen que mal pay , se r chauffer les doigts la flamme de la bougie. Son allure glaciale frigorifie le pauvre commis plus que ne le font les l ments; d'ailleurs, ne vient-il pas de refuser l'invitation d ner de son neveu, chasser un jeune gar on venu chanter un cantique sa porte, puis vertement se d barrasser de deux messieurs sollicitant un don pour un repas de f te destin aux pauvres, ces inutiles dont la mort r glerait le probl me de la surpopulation. Le seul cadeau maigrement consenti a t de donner un jour de cong Bob Cratchit, et encore, se convainc-t-il, pour satisfaire une inique convention sociale, une pauvre excuse pour mettre la main dans la poche d'un homme tous les 25 d cembre, dit- il] en boutonnant sa redingote jusqu'au menton. Mais je suppose qu'il vous faut la journ e tout enti re; t chez au moins de m'en d dommager en venant de bonne heure apr s-demain matin . Bob se r jouit pourtant de cette mis re car il entend dignement f ter No l avec sa famille en puisant sur ses 15 shillings hebdomadaires.