Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens da, con su Cuento de Navidad, forma a nuestras ideas sobre la Navidad. La historia se centra en un solitario avaro, Ebenezer Scrooge, al que una serie de visitantes fantasmales le enseñan el verdadero significado de la festividad y le dan una segunda oportunidad. Una historia plagada de ternura y redención humana.
En el libro no solo se rescatan las tradiciones que llegaron hasta la sociedad victoriana sino que se consolidan las...
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Published in its entirety for the first time since 1852, this shining collection of Christmas tales was originally selected by Charles Dickens for his periodical Household Words. Each story varies in theme and tone, with scenes of romance, theft, justice, and heart-warming family reunions set alongside haunting tales and chilling ghost stories, while topics addressed range from the meaning of Christmas to disability and race. Contributing authors...
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Three classic novels of wealth, poverty, murder, and ambition from the greatest storyteller of the Victorian era.
Filled with drama, emotion, and suspense, these three novels have compelled and delighted readers for well over a century.
Martin Chuzzlewit: After losing his inheritance, a young man strives to make his own fortune, in this witty, wide-ranging saga.
Nicholas Nickleby: A young man fights to save his mother, his sister, and a group of...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home" by Charles Dickens. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of...
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A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved novels and Christmas stories as well as his lesser-known sketches and letters for "an around-the-calendar set of jolts, soothings, blandishments, and soarings."
A bedside companion to dip into year round,...
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En 1865, Charles Dickens sufrió un accidente cuando descarriló el tren en el que viajaba. Un año después, vivió una mala experiencia con el servicio de la estación de Rugby, donde tuvo que quedarse durante un día entero. Fue a partir de estos sucesos que Dickens decidió, junto con sus colaboradores Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday y Hesba Stretton, escribir una serie de relatos repletos de humor negro que encuentran su punto...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated" by Charles Dickens. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
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Originally published in Boston in 1898 as a small format gift book, complete with its own box, Holly Berries from Dickens seemed to promise a Christmas book of a sort. It isn't. At least not directly. Something quite different awaits inside. These holly berries comprise over 120 quotations from just over 20 works by Charles Dickens including his Christmas stories and the author himself. Presented as a series for each day from Day 1 to Day 31, some...
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Three of Dickens's most compelling orphan protagonists-Oliver Twist, Pip, and Esther Summerson-in three of his greatest novels. Perhaps no writer in the English language is more closely associated with orphaned characters than Charles Dickens. The trials and dangers for children without parental protection play a significant part in nearly all his work, as both a source of highly entertaining melodrama and pointed social criticism. Oliver Twist: Having...
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Christmas is a magical time when we all remember the wonder of the world in the imagination of the child. Revisit timeless favorites in Classic Christmas Stories for Children.
Short stories from Hans Christian Andersen, Margery Williams Blanco, Susan Coolidge, Francois Copper, W.H. Corning, Charles Dickens, Ruth Sawyer Durand, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Ruth Lamb, F.E. Mann, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Clement C. Moore, Beatrix Potter, Katherine Pyle...
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Cozy up with your favorite Christmas stories and discover new wintry tales with this keepsake holiday anthology.
Just in time for the holidays, A Classic Christmas Treasury gathers together many of the season's classics and introduces new, diverse stories from around the globe in one decorative holiday volume. This cheerful, collectible treasury of stories, poems, and carols makes a wonderful gift any time of the year and reminds us that simple...
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"The Big Book of Christmas: Classic Stories and Poems - Illustrated" is a grand compilation that assembles a treasure trove of holiday tales and poems from a remarkable array of authors. This extensive collection includes 100 classic works, each thoughtfully illustrated, to immerse readers in the magic and wonder of the Christmas season.
This anthology spans a rich tapestry of Christmas literature, including timeless favorites such as "The Gift of...
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La novela de Dickens, "Tiempos difíciles" se desarrolla en Inglaterra en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, época de la Segunda Revolución Industrial, donde puede verse reflejado la calidad de vida de los obreros, sus problemas, en contraste con la gran vida que tienen los empresarios. Tomas Gradgind es un hombre al que sólo le interesan la realidad y las cosas serias, nunca utiliza la imaginación, tiene dos hijos Luisa y Tomas, a los que desde...
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Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las más acabadas representaciones del avaro en la historia de la literatura y otro de los inolvidables personajes de la amplia galería de Dickens.
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David Copperfield es un niño al que su padrastro abandona tras la muerte de su madre. Sin embargo, el chico hace todo lo posible para demostrar que tiene lo necesario para triunfar. Ambientada en 1840, David viaja por un mundo que trata de apartarle mientras él busca un hueco en el que encajar.
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Mr. Sampson ist Bürovorsteher einer Versicherungsgesellschaft in London. Schon bei ihrer ersten Begegnung im Kontor ist ihm Julius Slinkton unsympathisch, der für seinen Nachbarn Formulare für eine Lebensversicherung abholen will. Sampson kann nicht glauben, dass er sich in dem Scheitelträger so getäuscht haben soll. Er behält Slinkton im Auge.
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Die Rezepte des umherziehenden "billigen Jakobs" Marigold sind kurze schelmische Reden zur Belustigung der Käufer. Doch der muntere Verkäufer ist ein trauriger Mann, Frau und Tochter sterben früh. Sein einsames Leben ändert sich, als er die kleine taubstumme Sophie zu sich nimmt. Als Sophie sich verliebt, muss Marigold eine schwierige Entscheidung treffen ... Zusätzlich finden Sie auf diesem Hörbuch die Erzählungen "Die Geschichte des Schuljungen"...
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"La Casa Hechizada" de Charles Dickens es una novela corta fantasmal. Sigue los eventos espeluznantes y sobrenaturales en una vieja y decrépita mansión, mientras un grupo de visitantes experimenta apariciones inquietantes y sucesos misteriosos que desafían su comprensión del mundo natural.
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Die Geschichte lässt uns auf wunderbare Weise den Zauber des Weihnachtsfestes erleben: Der ruchlose Geschäftsmann Ebenezer Scrooge wird von drei Weihnachtsgeistern heimgesucht, die ihm begreiflich machen, was für ein abscheulicher Mensch er geworden ist. Aber sie geben ihm auch die Möglichkeit, sein Leben zu ändern.
In dieser Aufnahme hören Sie die Vorlesefassung, die Dickens selbst für seine Lesetourneen angefertigt hat, übersetzt von Richard...