Charles Dickens

Paris et Londres en 1793 / Ch. Dickens; roman anglais traduit... par Mme LoreauDate de l'edition originale: 1873Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

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 semi-autobiograf 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. Cada publicaci n en el All the Year Round conten a dos cap tulos y estaba escrita de tal manera que manten a al lector interesado de semana a semana. La novela est ambientada en la campi a de Kent y en Londres.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

Extract: MARLEY'S GHOST. Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot-say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance-literally to astonish his son's weak mind. Charles John Huffam Dickens, n Landport, pr s de Portsmouth, dans le Hampshire, le 7 f vrier 1812 et mort Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, le 9 juin 1870 ( 58 ans), est consid r comme le plus grand romancier de l' poque victorienne. D s ses premiers crits, il est devenu immens ment c l bre, sa popularit ne cessant de cro tre au fil de ses publications. L'exp rience marquante de son enfance, que certains consid rent comme la clef de son g nie, a t , peu avant l'incarc ration de son p re pour dettes la Marshalsea, son embauche douze ans chez Warren o il a coll des tiquettes sur des pots de cirage pendant plus d'une ann e. Bien qu'il soit retourn presque trois ans l' cole, son ducation est rest e sommaire et sa grande culture est essentiellement due ses efforts personnels. Il a fond et publi plusieurs hebdomadaires, compos quinze romans majeurs, cinq livres de moindre envergure (novellas en anglais), des centaines de nouvelles et d'articles portant sur des sujets litt raires ou de soci t . Sa passion pour le th tre l'a pouss crire et mettre en sc ne des pi ces, jouer la com die et faire des lectures publiques de ses oeuvres qui, lors de tourn es souvent harassantes, sont vite devenues extr mement populaires en Grande-Bretagne et aux tats-Unis. Charles Dickens a t un infatigable d fenseur du droit des enfants, de l' ducation pour tous, de la condition f minine et de nombreuses autres causes, dont celle des prostitu es.

Four classic short stories, offering a perfect introduction to some of Britain's most famous writers. This box includes: Katherine Mansfield - Bliss Charles Dickens - Horatio SparkinsD. H. Lawrence - Sun Virginia Woolf - Lappin and Lapinova The concept of Novellix is simple; small books, big stories, all contained within beautiful, accessible packages; ideal for reading on the go.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as “humbug”. One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a transformed man. With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843.

Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens’s most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs. In the misery of a workhouse, a poor, fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed on nothing but thin air and even thinner gruel. By squeaking a fateful question – ‘Please, sir, I want some more’ – he unwittingly sparks a series of events that lead him to the smoke and grime of the big city, where he encounters a host of four-legged friends and foes such as the crafty Fagin, mischievous Artful Dodger, faithful Nancy and treacherous Bill Sikes, who sweep young Oliver off of his paws and into the underworld of Victorian London.

“The appearance of Mr. Horatio Sparkins at the assembly, had excited no small degree of surprise and curiosity among its regular frequenters. Who could he be? He was evidently reserved, and apparently melancholy. Was he a clergyman? - He danced too well. A barrister? - He said he was not called. […] Was he a surgeon, a contributor to the magazines, a writer of fashionable novels, or an artist? - No; to each and all of these surmises, there existed some valid objection. - “Then,” said everybody, “he must be SOMEBODY.” Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of Britain’s most-loved authors and his work is still widely read today. He was a vastly popular writer during his lifetime and is recognised the world over for his astute depictions of Victorian London. Dickens’ work included novels, short stories, essays and plays and he also worked as a journalist and newspaper editor. Dickens’ debut novel The Pickwick Papers was published in 1836 and his most well-known stories include Oliver Twist (1837-39), David Copperfield (1849-50) and A Christmas Carol (1843). Horatio Sparkins formed part of Dickens’ first short story collection Sketches by Boz which was published under a pseudonym in 1836.

This classic 1843 tale by Charles Dickens has all your favorite characters in their original telling: Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the rest. This hard cover edition is a FACSIMILE of "A Christmas Carol" as first published in 1843, which means it includes the original illustrations, in full color, by John Leech. While the cloth cover cannot be reproduced exactly, the cover of this edition is nearly identical in appearance to the original. If you want to read "A Christmas Carol" exactly as it was when it was first written, this edition is for you. Also available in hard cover: 9781936830886 And as a soft cover edition: 9781936830916 These two options have been gently updated layout to conform with modern printing methods, with easier to read text compared to the facsimile and similar very minor adjustments.]Note: THIS EDITION IS A FACSIMILE. That means it is EXACTLY as was originally published. For that reason, it has the magic of the original, but also contains all the blemishes and defects which were common to books printed almost 200 years ago. Reader beware. Further, the original illustrator, John Leech, did not use a computer or graphic editing to create his illustrations. llustrations at the time were created as engravings which had to be colored by hand, or through wood cuts. Readers beware. They were not mofidied or enhanced for this edition. It is a FACSIMILE

A Tale of Two Cities, a story of revolution, revenge and sacrifice, is one of Charles Dickens' most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Dr Manette, wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years, is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie who, despite her French ancestry, has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay, who has abandoned both wealth and title in France because of his political convictions. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant, but is soon arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations. Lucie, aided by young lawyer, Sydney Carton, follows him across the Channel, thus putting all their lives in danger. With an afterword by Sam Gilpin. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A novel of social and moral themes, Hard Times is the archetypal Dickens novel, filled with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. Published in 1854, it is set in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston, and tells the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, a man obsessed with misguided 'Utilitarian' values that make him trust facts, statistics and practicality over emotion. Based on James Mill (the Utilitarian leader), Gradgrind raises his own children, Louisa and Tom, in line with these same views, forcing an artless existence on them. Contemporary critics such as Macaulay savaged the book for its supposed 'sullen socialism' but it has become well regarded since earning the favour of George Bernard Shaw. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated by Harry French, with an afterword by David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.