Télécharger le livre :  Selected Journalism 1850-1870
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Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-09-28

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Télécharger le livre :  A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-09-14

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Télécharger le livre :  A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-09-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Dombey and Son
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'There's no writing against such power as this - one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family. Paul Dombey...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-04-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Pictures from Italy
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'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-03-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Sketches by Boz
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'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire TomalinCharles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz is a funny and touching collection of observation, fancy and fiction showing the London he knew in all its...

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Parution : 2006-03-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Short Fiction
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This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-02-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Our Mutual Friend
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-01-29

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Télécharger le livre :  A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
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'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring influence on the...

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Parution : 2003-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Nicholas Nickleby
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'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. WilsonThe hero of Dickens's flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father's death and forced to make his own way in the world. His...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-09-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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'Dickens's finest work in the genre of the detective story was his last' The TimesEdwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly...

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Parution : 2003-09-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Barnaby Rudge
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'What dark history is this?' This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2003-06-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The Old Curiosity Shop
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'His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better' Ruth RendellThe Old Curiosity Shop was an instant bestseller that, even while it was criticized for its sentimentality, captured the hearts of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Bleak House
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'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-03-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Barnaby Rudge
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'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter AckroydSet against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-02-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Great Expectations
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'His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter AckroydDickens's haunting late novel depicts the education and development of a young man, Pip, as his life is changed by a series of events - a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-01-30

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Télécharger le livre :  American Notes
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'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John MortimerWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his travels with an intense curiosity. His frank descriptions cover...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2000-10-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pickwick Papers
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'One of my life's greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers - I can't go back and read it for the first time' Fernando PessoaFew first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2000-02-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Martin Chuzzlewit
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'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' GuardianGreed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and name-sake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1999-11-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Oliver Twist
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Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1999-07-08

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