With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part.
In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular.
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.
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own ‘great expectations’ in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.
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.
Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience. But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.
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.
"Opowieść wigilijna" to jedna z najbardziej znanych i lubianych historii świątecznych, która doczekała się wielu adaptacji filmowych, teatralnych i operowych. Utwór ten uznawany jest za klasykę literatury bożonarodzeniowej. Poznaj historię skąpego Ebenezera Scrooge'a, przepięknie zilustrowaną i dostosowaną treścią do wieku najmłodszych czytelników.Starego, bogatego i nieprawdopodobnie skąpego mężczyznę w noc wigilijną odwiedzają duchy ukazujące mu jego przeszłość, teraźniejszość i przyszłość. Pod wpływem nieproszonych gości Scrooge zmienia się i staje dobrym człowiekiem.
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.
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.
Klasyka światowa literatury młodzieżowej Tytułowy bohater, Olivier Twist, chłopiec urodzony w schronisku dla bezdomnych, trafia do sierocińca, w którym panują głód, zimno i przemoc. W tych nieludzkich warunkach przeżywa niewiele dzieci, Oliverowi się to jednak udaje. W dniu dziewiątych urodzin chłopiec zostaje odesłany do kolejnego sierocińca, w którym ma się "nauczyć" fachu, a w którym warunki są równie straszliwe, jak w poprzednim. Wyrzucony z sierocińca pod byle pretekstem, musi liczyć sam na siebie. W ten sposób trafia do szajki młodocianych złodziejaszków. Pewnego dnia na drodze Oliviera, dziecka bezwzględnie wykorzystywanego od początku życia, stanie jednak ktoś, kto poda mu pomocną dłoń i dzięki komu życie chłopca się zmieni. "Olivier Twist" to nie tylko poruszająca powieść obyczajowa pełna przygód, wyrazistych postaci oraz plastycznych opisów wiktoriańskiego Londynu i ówczesnego, pełnego kontrastów społeczeństwa. To również krytyka społeczno-polityczna i dramat, w którym tajemnica, na początku ledwie zarysowana, powoli znajduje swoje rozwiązanie.
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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.
When millions suffer under oppression, when resentment boils into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance—can one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens sets the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton against the backdrop of the French Revolution and its terror and chaos. The result is a powerful story of love, sacrifice, and redemption.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
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