Dickens Charles: 1999 books

‘Oh, but he was a squeezing, wrenching, scraping, grasping kind of a Scrooge; a clutching, covetous old sinner...’ Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's A Christmas Carol is a bold theatrical reimagining of a classic Christmas...

Charles Dickens wrote short stories and essays that are comical, satirical, and morally earnest. This collection of over thirty of Dickens’s stories and essays is an invaluable addition to the library of all fans and students of the preeminent Victorian-era writer. The volume includes “The Lamplighter,”...

THE MAGIC FISHBONE  is one children's book by Charles Dickens was an English novelist. It is the second of four stories entitled “Holiday Romance” and was published originally in a children’s magazine in America. It purports to be written by a child aged seven. It was republished in England...

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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.  A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the...

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told...

Neste clássico da literatura, Charles Dickens trata da sociedade inglesa durante a Revolução Industrial usando como pano de fundo a fictícia e cinzenta cidade de Coketown e a história de seus habitantes. Em seu décimo romance, o autor faz uma crítica profunda às condições de vida dos trabalhadores...

Conto muito tenso e compacto, todo feito entre carris, cheio de barulhos de comboio, ocasos na desolada paisagem ferroviária, figuras vistas à distância das encostas. "O sinaleiro", publicado em 1866 em All the Year Round, é certamente um dos melhores contos fantásticos de Dickens.

Em "As Vozes dos Sinos", Dickens denuncia as desigualdades sociais, no período da Revolução Industrial, chamando a atenção para os orfanatos imundos, os asilos e as prisões superlotadas, a miséria, a fome, a prostituição, o suicídio, a avareza e a hipocrisia. No entanto, demonstra...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Amazing History of England - Children's Book with Original Illustrations" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Child's History of England is a history book written for children. Dickens dedicated the book to...

A Tale of Two Cities is a book which contains the simplified edition of the novel with the same title by famous author Charles Dickens. The two cities Paris and London were at the dawn of a revolution whose influences were felt all over the world throughout the centuries The French Revolution....

A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Lieut-Col. Robin Redforth, aged 9. The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is the third of four stories entitled "Holiday Romance" and was published originally in a children's magazine in America. It purports to be written...

A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens. In an ancient, crumbling mansion, sheltering from the howling winds that tear across the surrounding desolate moorland, two men stumble across a dark and terrifying secret that will change both...

Anyone who has ever read a novel by Charles Dickens is well aware of the author's keen interest in social issues, especially the detrimental effects of poverty. This volume of essays brings together some of Dickens' best non-fiction writing on social issues, carried out in the form of letters to the...