Charles Dickens

On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty. Dickens was profoundly affected by the disaster, and a year later, he published The Signalman, a supremely atmospheric ghost story in which the narrator, while investigating a dank and lonely railway cutting, meets the signalman who works there. His new acquaintance appears to live under the shadow of an unbearable secret, haunted by an apparition whose appearance prefigures terrible rail accidents. Drawing on Dickens own experiences, and introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways, The Signalman is both an important piece of rail history, and a sinister tale which will make you think twice next time you enter the quiet carriage.

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together, and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turns. For this work, commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enlisted some of the era’s most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic.

Charles Dickens' account of his trip to Mars in 1842. Including never before published material declassified by the Circumlocution Office. Note this edition is a facsimile of the 1914 edition and has small print, a popular softback edition will be issued shortly. An Alt History, a Planetary Romance, a Travelogue.

Las mas celebres y espeluzinantes historias de Charles Dicken llenas de drama y fantasia. Cuentos para jovenes y adultos por igual. El juicio por asesinato, El Guardav as, Fantasmas de Navidad, El Capit n Asesino y el pacto con el Diablo, La visita del se or Testador, La casa encantada y muchas otras. Un libro facil de leer, con historias que pudieran ser de seres de otro universo paralelo.

Il romanzo venne pubblicato nel 1840 sul settimanale Master Humphrey's Clock (in italiano L'orologio di mastro Humphrey), fondato da Dickens nello stesso anno. Il settimanale non ebbe molto successo e venne perci edito soltanto fino al 1842, ma il libro riscosse e riscuote tuttora il favore del pubblico.

Philip Pirrip, mejor conocido como "Pip", un ni o que vive con su hermana y su cu ado despu s de la muerte de sus padres, conoce a un viejo convicto que hab a escapado de un barco-prisi n mientras visitaba la tumba de sus progenitores. El viejo le pide al ni o colaboraci n, asust ndolo y amenaz ndolo, para que este le consiga comida y un instrumento para que pueda liberarse de sus grilletes. Pip decide ayudarlo a escondidas de su rigurosa hermana, quien acostumbra a castigarlo con una vara de madera llamado "Tickler", robando una torta y una lima para el convicto. Despu s de varios d as el convicto es encontrado por varios soldados peleando con otro convicto que hab a escapado. Despu s de dos a os, Pip es mandado a la casa de la Se orita Havisham, una mujer de mediana edad, para que pueda jugar cartas y entretenerla. All el joven Pip conoci a Estella, de quien caer a perdidamente enamorado. El deseo de la mujer era el de vengarse de todos los hombres ya que ella fue plantada el d a de su boda. Estella varias veces lo trataba cruelmente y se burlaba de sus ropas, en parte por la formaci n que recibi por parte de la se orita Havisham. Pip quer a ser un caballero para as poder ser digno del amor de Estella. En una de sus visitas a la Casa Satis, Pip pelea con otro joven. Despu s de un buen tiempo, la se orita Havisham decide que Pip deje de ir a su casa para que sea instruido como un herrero, tal cual como su cu ado, Joe. Un tiempo despu s, Pip, quien estaba siendo entrenado para ser herrero, y Joe estaban en el pueblo por unos d as, cuando reciben una visita del Sr. Jaggers quien les informa que Pip tiene un benefactor y que tiene la oportunidad de estudiar para convertirse en un caballero. Pip acepta y fue apartado del cuidado de su amigo y cu ado Joe para ir a vivir a Londres y ser educado. Ya en la ciudad, Pip tiene que vivir con un compa ero de cuarto llamado Herbert Pocket, chico con el cual hab a peleado en la Casa Satis, despu s de reconocerse el uno al otro se convierten en grandes amigos mientras que Pip comienza su formaci n como caballero con su tutor Matthew Pocket, padre de Herbert. Mientras el joven Pip es educado se le es negado conocer el nombre de su benefactor, aunque l pens r pidamente que era la Se orita Havisham, llegando tambi n a pensar que Estella era parte de sus prospectos.

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five Christmas Books, coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. Battle is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scene takes place at Christmas time, but it is not the final scene.) The story bears some resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two respects: it has a non-urban setting, and it is resolved with a romantic twist. It is even less of a social novel than is Cricket. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one. It is one of Dickens's lesser-known works and has never attained any high level of popularity - a trait it shares among the Christmas Books with The Haunted Man. Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live happily in an English village with their two servants, Clemency Newcome and Ben Britain, and their good-natured widower father Dr Jeddler. Dr Jeddler is a man whose philosophy is to treat life as a farce. Marion, the younger sister, is betrothed to Alfred Heathfield, Jeddler's ward who is leaving the village to complete his studies. He entrusts Marion to Grace's care and makes a promise to return to win Marion's hand. Michael Warden, a libertine who is about to leave the country, is thought by the barristers Snitchey and Craggs to be about to seduce the younger sister into an elopement. Clemency spies Marion one night in her clandestine rendezvous with Warden. On the day that Alfred is to return, however, it is discovered that Marion has run off. Her supposed elopement causes much grief to both her father and her sister. Six years pass. Clemency is now married to Britain and the two have set up a tavern in the village. After nursing heartbreak, Alfred marries Grace instead of Marion and she bears him a daughter, also called Marion. On the birthday of Marion, Grace confides to Alfred that Marion has made a promise to explain her so-called "elopement" in person. Marion indeed appears that evening by sunset and explains her disappearance to the parties involved.

American Notes for General Circulation is an American travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist. His American journey was also an inspiration for his novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Having arrived in Boston, he visited Lowell, New York, and Philadelphia, and travelled as far south as Richmond, as far west as St. Louis and as far north as Quebec. The American city he liked best was Boston - "the air was so clear, the houses were so bright and gay. ...] The city is a beautiful one, and cannot fail, I should imagine, to impress all strangers very favourably." Further, it was close to the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind where Dickens encountered Laura Bridgman, who impressed him greatly. On 3 January 1842, one month shy of his 30th birthday, Dickens sailed with his wife, Catherine, and her maid, Anne Brown, from Liverpool on board the steamship RMS Britannia bound for America. Arriving in Boston on 22 January 1842, the author was at once mobbed. Dickens at first revelled in the attention, but soon the endless demands on his time began to wear on his enthusiasm. He complained in a letter to his friend John Forster: I can do nothing that I want to do, go nowhere where I want to go, and see nothing that I want to see. If I turn into the street, I am followed by a multitude. He travelled mainly on the East Coast and the Great Lakes area of both the United States and Canada, primarily by steamboat, but also by rail and coach. During his extensive itinerary, he made a particular point of visiting prisons and mental institutions and even took a quick glimpse at the prairie. He was particularly critical of the American press and the sanitary conditions of American cities. He also wrote merciless parodies of the manners of the locals, including, but not limited to, their rural conversations and practice of spitting tobacco in public (Ch. 8 - Washington): As Washington may be called the headquarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva, the time is come when I must confess, without any disguise, that the prevalence of those two odious practices of chewing and expectorating began about this time to be anything but agreeable, and soon became most offensive and sickening. In Washington, D. C., he called upon President John Tyler in the White House, writing that: ...he looked somewhat worn and anxious, and well he might; being at war with everybody - but the expression of his face was mild and pleasant, and his manner was remarkably unaffected, gentlemanly, and agreeable. I thought that in his whole carriage and demeanour, he became his station singularly well. Although generally impressed by what he found, he could not forgive the continued existence of slavery in the United States, and the final chapters of the book are devoted to a criticism of the practice. He was also unhappy about copyright issues. Dickens, by this time, had become an international celebrity, but owing to the lack of an international copyright law, bootleg copies of his works were freely available in North America and he could not abide losing money. Dickens called for international copyright law in many of his speeches in America, and his persistence in discussing the subject led some critics to accuse him of having traveled to America primarily to agitate for that cause. Dickens' letters home to his friends, including John Forster and illustrator Daniel Maclise, helped to form the basis of the book.

La vie de David Copperfield est sans histoire jusqu'au jour o sa m re se remarie. Maltrait par son beau-p re, envoy en pension, David commence une lente descente aux enfers. Travaillant Londres pour survivre, il n'a plus qu'une id e en t te: s'enfuir et retrouver le bonheur perdu... Mais il ne peux compter que sur lui et la providence pour s'en sortir...

The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens is a classic collection of poetic works by Charles Dickens. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens were collected and edited, with bibliographical notes, by F. G. Kitton. With poems and verses from The Daily News, The Lighthouse and many other works.

This edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is set in 12 point Book Antiqua font. The text has been fully revised and formatted for optimum reading pleasure.'A Christmas Carol' remains one of the most popular short stories ever written. It has never been out of print.