Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocrat Darnay and the dissolute lawyer Carton. Their story, which encompasses violence, revenge, love and redemption, is grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying brutality of the French Revolution.
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
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 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.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle’s great work – The French Revolution – and also on his own observations and investigations during numerous visits to Paris.
‘The best story I have written’ was Dickens’ own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author’s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg.
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.
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.
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
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’.
Wraz z wigilijnym wieczorem nastaje czas, gdy świat duchów przenika się ze światem żywych… W zapadającym zmroku, przy blasku świec i zapachu choinki otula nas rodzinne ciepło. Kiedy jednak za oknem zrywa się wiatr, a dom pogrąża w ciszy, dochodzą do nas kroki kogoś, kto dawno już odszedł. Niniejszy zbiór przyprawi magię świąt odrobiną dreszczu, jak w zachwycającej od pokoleń Opowieści wigilijnej – niesamowitej historii o samotności, przemianie, współczuciu i nadziei. Po spotkaniu ze Scrooge’em czas na inne, równie fascynujące opowiadania. Dzięki tej książce w Boże Narodzenie staniemy przed bramą pomiędzy światem żywych i umarłych, a granica między nimi okaże się zaskakująco cienka. To lektura dla miłośników klasyki, literackiej grozy i tajemniczych podań.
Prezentowane egzemplarze mogą posiadać pewne uszkodzenia, takie jak porysowane lub nieco uszkodzone okładki, zagięcia, zżółknięcia, zbite narożniki itp.
Ostatnia książka Charlesa Dickensa, która dała początek mrocznej legendzie. Rzeczywistość sprawiła, że powieść ta owiana została aurą większej tajemniczości, niż zakładał sam autor.
Tytułowy bohater, młody architekt Edwin Drood, od dzieciństwa przyrzeczony jest pięknej Rosie Bud. Mimo że ich uczucia dawno wygasły, nadal pozostają ze sobą związani. O serce dziewczyny ubiegają się wszak także inni mężczyźni, co dodatkowo komplikuje sytuację
W tle unosi się duszny klimat epoki wiktoriańskiej, majaczą opiumowe wizje i dwuznaczny erotyzm. Pewnego dnia w tajemniczych okolicznościach Drood znika i ślad po nim ginie
Na początku 1870 roku Charles Dickens, pisarz spełniony, ceniony przez krytykę i uwielbiany przez czytelników, zdecydował się podjąć wyzwanie i napisać kryminał. Powieść ukazywała się w odcinkach, lecz na zawsze pozostała bez zakończenia. Dickens zmarł bowiem w trakcie jej powstawania.
Na przestrzeni lat pojawiło się wiele spekulacji dotyczących związków książki ze śmiercią autora. Stąd też doczekała się wielu interpretacji i przypisywanych jej teorii spiskowych. Stworzono dla niej też wiele alternatywnych, zaskakujących zakończeń.
W niniejszym wydaniu zamieszczone zostały trzy wersje możliwego finału powieści i rozwiązania tajemnicy Edwina Drooda. Twórcą jednego z nich jest Gilbert Keith Chesterton, słynny autor opowiadań kryminalnych
• Klasyczna Opowieść wigilijna w bajkowym świecie zwierząt • Idealna dla młodych i najmłodszych czytelników • Zjawiskowe ilustracje Joego Sutphina Ta urocza adaptacja historii Dickensa przenosi nas do dziewiętnastowiecznego Londynu zamieszkanego przez zwierzęta. W świątecznej atmosferze Ebenezer Scrooge odkrywa, jak moc Bożego Narodzenia potrafi przemienić nawet najbardziej zatwardziałe serce. Nowe tłumaczenie i pełne ciepła ilustracje tworzą książkę, do której chce się wracać każdego roku.
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.
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