Charles Dickens

Every Christmas, the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with its detailed emendations, deletions and insertions in Dickens’ hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, is a facsimile of that invaluable manuscript, along with a typeset version of the story, a fascinating introduction by the Morgan’s chief literary curator on the history of the story and a new foreword by Colm Tóibín celebrating its timeless appeal.

Dicken's Classic Tale of Ebeneezer Scrooge and his three ghosts.

Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well. Each RADLEY CLASSIC is a meticulously restored, luxurious and faithful reproduction of a classic book; produced with elegant text layout, clarity of presentation, and stylistic features that make reading a true pleasure. Special attention is given to legible fonts and adequate letter sizing, correct line length for readability, generous margins and triple lead (lavish line separation); plus we do not allow any mistakes/changes/ additions to creep into the original author's words. Visit RADLEY BOOKS at www.radleybooks.com to see more classic book titles in this series.

The Cricket on the Hearth - A Fairy Tale of Home is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A trav s del ascenso social de Pip, un ni o hu rfano y sin educaci n, el autor revela todos los imponderables que se suceden en las complejas relaciones humanas.

Historia de dos ciudades es una de las novelas del escritor brit nico Charles Dickens, publicada en 1859. Esta novela es particularmente distinta a las dem s que escribi , las cuales se basan en su mayor a en historias protagonizadas por ni os o adolescentes y muestran una intenci n de reprimenda o denuncia de la sociedad brit nica de la poca. En esta novela hist rica se narra la vida en el siglo XVIII, en la poca de la Revoluci n francesa. Al mismo tiempo la historia se desarrolla en dos pa ses: Inglaterra y Francia, y en las ciudades de Londres y Par s, respectivamente en la poca de los albores de la Revoluci n francesa. La primera ciudad simbolizar a de alg n modo la paz y la tranquilidad, la vida sencilla y ordenada; mientras la segunda representar a la agitaci n, el desaf o y el caos, el conflicto entre dos mundos en una poca en la que se anuncia dr sticos cambios sociales.

"The Cricket on the Hearth". Publicado originalmente en 1845. El Grillo del Hogar conjuga las principales habilidades de Dickens: por un lado, el humor con el que presenta a sus personajes (la sordera del misterioso viejo, el descuidado beb cuya cabeza golpea con las paredes) o dialoga burlonamente con el lector; por el otro, la utilizaci n de los recursos b sicos de la trama, desde la ins lita casualidad hasta el reconocimiento de los personajes (lo que los griegos llamaban anagn risis).