Dickens: 2109 books

En un Londres neblinoso y enfangado, un pleito se eterniza en el decadente Tribunal de la Cancillería. La anquilosada maquinaria judicial asiste al paso de generaciones, al suicidio o al enloquecimiento de algunos querellantes, al enmohecimiento de las posesiones y a la ruina material o espiritual de incontables individuos con una impasibilidad que llega a lo cruel.

With the sudden death of their father, the penniless Nicklebys are forced to leave the comfort of their Devonshire estate and seek refuge in London with a duplicitous relative. Ruthless businessman Ralph Nickleby loathes his relations on sight and grudgingly finds work for Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall,...

Mr. Pickwick, a convivial old gentleman, resolves that he and three other "Pickwickians" — Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman — should travel beyond London to add to their experiences of the quaint and curious phenomena of life. The friends traverse the...

It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed...

First published serially in 1840–41 in Dickens' own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, and in book form in 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching story of Little Nell and her doting grandfather offered a rich amalgam of misery and malice, goodness and...

*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.  In this charming collection of short stories, Dickens presents...

*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.  Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name,...

‘A Christmas Carol’ written in 1843, remains one of Charles Dickens' most widely recognized and popular creations. The books touches various themes such as plight of England's poor, social criticism, sentimental celebration of the Christmas season and has won much appreciation among general readers.

As the Old Curiosity Shop grew out of a short story which Charles Dickens had begun with the half-formed notion of Little Nell and the Grandfather in his mind, so Great Expectations arose out of similarly modest beginnings. In 1860 he wrote to Mr. Forster, " for a little piece I have been writing—or...

As an example of Dickens 's literary work, A Tale of Two Cities is not wrongly named. It is his most typical contact with the civil ideals of Europe. All his other tales have been tales of one city. He was in spirit a Cockney; though that title has been quite unreasonably twisted to mean a cad. By...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding...

King Watkins the First is the father of the lovely and kind-hearted Princess Alicia and a tribe of eighteen other darlings. Between their money problems, the queen's illness, and the children's boisterous doings, the king and his eldest daughter are fairly overwhelmed by responsibilities. But a chance...

David resta orfano prima di padre e poi di madre. La sua è un'infanzia infelice, tra le privazioni quotidiane e la severa scuola del maestro Creakle. Il patrigno gli impone un lavoro alienante, ma David, disperato, fugge  a Dover, dove una sua zia, Betsey, accetta di occuparsi di lui. Lo manda a...

Sunday Under Three Heads" by Dickens is a short story with explicit description of the characters. Although the book comprises of only three chapters still it carries complete details and narrations that elucidate upon the plot. The conclusion of the story is very dramatic and keeps the readers interested. Startling!