Kiedy umiera matka młodego Davida, jego okrutny ojczym wysyła go do pracy w fabryce w Londynie. Warunki pracy są przerażające i David postanawia uciec i rozpocząć nowe życie w Dover Interesujące opowiadanie oparte na klasycznych historiach, znanych przez czytelników na całym świecie. Odpowiednie dobrane słownictwo i gramatyka dostosowane do poziomu językowego CEFR dla nastolatków i młodzieży. Czytając rozwijamy wszystkie umiejętności językowe, w tym szczególnie wzbogacamy swój zasób słownictwa w język angielskim. Książeczka posiada dodatkową część z ćwiczeniami oraz słowniczek. Doskonała do samodzielnego uczenia się. Zawiera e-book z treścią książki, który ucz wymowy oraz słuchania ze zrozumieniem.Poziom: 4, ilość słów: 1200, B1 egzamin PET
Paryż i Londyn pod koniec XVIII wieku. Nad francuską stolicą wisi widmo rewolucji, gdy z Anglii przybywa Lucie Manette, by uwolnić swego ojca, przez osiemnaście lat niesłusznie więzionego w Bastylii. Już wkrótce zarówno w jej, jak i w losy pozostałych bohaterów wkroczą burzliwe wydarzenia, które na zawsze zmienią Europę.
Te Święta będą inne!
Ebenezer Scrooge od wielu lat nie obchodzi Świąt Bożego Narodzenia. Jest to dla niego dzień niemal jak każdy inny. Wszystko zmienia się jednak po nocy pełnej niespodziewanych wizyt. Dzięki nim powraca do świąt swego dzieciństwa, ma okazję zobaczyć, co dzieje się w tym roku oraz co czeka go w kolejnych latach. Ciepła i pełna humoru historia o tym, co w życiu ważne. To opowieść o miłości, dobroczynności i współczuciu.
Znakomita kreacja Zbigniewa Zapasiewicza doskonale wprowadza w nastrój powieści.
Dickens?s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel?s themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts.
A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens?s usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story.
Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens?s immense creativity and versatility.
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank.
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success.
Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.
Dickens was conscious of the ‘many friends’ the novel had won for him, and ‘the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow’, and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.
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 poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.
Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.
For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel's range of characters - the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a portrait of society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts.
Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens' finest works, written at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it ‘a masterpiece among masterpices’, a vedict shared by the novel's many admirers.
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son'. When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's office, rescues her from a bewildering experience in the streets of London, his unforgettable friends believe he is well on his way to receiving her hand in marriage and inheriting the company. It is to be a very different type of story.
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity.
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form.
Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family.
Few readers, arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will not wish to echo Thackeray’s famous praise, having read the first monthly part – ‘Bravo Dickens’.
In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore.
A Christmas Carol, the first of the selection, has become a touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, staged and filmed, this richly influential tale is powerfully vivid and moving.
The other stories, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life andThe Haunted Man, blend whimsy, sentiment, comedy, satire, the didactic and the fantastic, developing resourcefully the theme of individual and social regeneration.
Hard Times was published in 1854 and is set in Northern England in Coketown, a polluted and suffering place with smoke-filled factories and soulless workers who have been downtrodden by the cruel and heartless Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby. The novel was published to mixed criticism, with many feeling at the time that it was too distressing.
In Great Expectations Dickens tells the enthralling story of the orphaned Pip and introduces us to a gallery of unforgettable characters including Joe, the kindly blacksmith, the mysterious Magwitch, the reclusive Miss Havisham and the beautiful but cold-hearted Estella.
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Oliver Twist.
After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back . . .
The classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London, with an inspirational and light-hearted introduction by popular children's fantasy writer, Garth Nix.
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Afternoon eighteen years as a prisoner in the Bastille, Dr Manettee settles in London with his long-lost daughter Lucie. But their tranquil existence is shattered when the family is drawn back to Paris, a city in the grip of the Terror.
In Dicken's great historical novel, the action switches between London and Revolutionary Paris in a compelling drama of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Chiltern are publishers of exquisitely crafted editions of the world’s finest classic literature.
These beautiful books are a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques. With wonderful original, detailed and embossed covers, sparkling gilt edges, cream art paper, ribbon markers and stitched binding they are simply the most beautiful classics ever published.
Part of the Chiltern Classics range. Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad.
Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker but runs away after he gets into a fight with another apprentice. When Oliver arrives in London, he meets Jack, also known as the Artful Dodger, who offers him a place to stay with a number of other boys. Oliver learns that these boys are trained pickpockets.
On an outing, Oliver witnesses the boys take a handkerchief from Mr. Brownlow, an elderly man, which prompts Oliver to run away in fear and confusion. The elderly man mistakes Oliver's behaviour for guilt and has him arrested.
However, after learning more about Oliver, Mr. Brownlow realizes his mistake and offers to take care of him at his home. Chiltern are publishers of exquisitely crafted editions of the world’s finest classic literature.
These beautiful books are a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques. With wonderful original, detailed and embossed covers, sparkling gilt edges, cream art paper, ribbon markers and stitched binding they are simply the most beautiful classics ever published.
Poznaj Ebenezera Scrooge’: skąpca i samoluba, który wprost nie cierpi świąt Bożego Narodzenia. Ta książka, do której piękne ilustracje przygotowała utalentowana hiszpańska artystka, Ana García, opowiada o tym, jak w jedną noc wszystko może się odmienić. Utwór Karola Dickensa, zaliczany do klasyki literatury dla dzieci i młodzieży, stanowi pouczającą lekturę dla kolejnych pokoleń młodych.
Edycja limitowana z barwionymi kartkami. Klub Pickwicka to powieść Charlesa Dickensa, która została pierwotnie opublikowana w formie odcinków w latach 1836-1837. Jest to jedno z najwcześniejszych dzieł tego autora. Nazwa powieści odnosi się do fikcyjnego klubu literackiego o nazwie Klub Pickwicka, którego członkowie podróżują przez Anglię, doświadczając różnych przygód i zawirowań. Komedia obyczajowa, która stanowi satyrę na społeczeństwo i obyczaje ówczesnej Anglii. Pełna humoru, absurdalnych sytuacji oraz błyskotliwych spostrzeżeń dotyczących ludzkiego charakteru. Dickensa styl pisania, jego zdolność do obserwacji ludzkiego życia i umiejętność tworzenia barwnych postaci sprawiają, że powieść ta cieszy się popularnością do dziś.
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child
Full of tragedy and comedy in equal measure and based in part on the author's own life, David Copperfield remains one of the most enduring and popular of Dickens' novels.
Among the memorable cast of characters he encounters along the way are his brutal stepfather, Mr Murdstone; bubbly Nurse Peggotty; his brilliant, but unworthy schoolmate Steerforth, his eccentric aunt, Betsy Trotwood, the scheming clerk Uriah Heep, the enchanting Dora and the magnificent Mr Macawber - a character much like Dickens' own father.
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