Bücher von Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol, is a short novel by Charles Dickens which was originally published in 1843. Suddenly conceived and written in a few weeks, the story is regarded as one of the outstanding Christmas stories of modern literature. The novel contains a series of spectral visions. The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is allowed to review his life and to change its outcome. The Ghost of Christmas Past reveals vignettes of Scrooge's early life as a schoolboy, an apprentice, and a young man in love. The Ghost of Christmas Present reveals to Scrooge that joy has little to do with wealth.Both visit the homes of Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's much-abused clerk, and his generous nephew Fred, who has married for love. Finally, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come allows Scrooge a vision of what his end will be like if he continues on his present course. Scrooge is now a changed man. He immediately sets about mending his ways. He becomes generous and thoughtful and thereby finds redemption and joy.

Great Expectations is written by English author Charles Dickens. The book was published serially in the journal All the Year Round in 1860-61 and issued in book form in 1861. The novel traces the prospects of a poor young man - Pip - who is educated as a gentleman of "great expectations." Written in the first-person narrative, the story tells the saga of Pip (Philip Pirrip) who is looked after by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. One day, the young Pip helps an escaped convict. Later on, Abel Magwitch, the convict he once aided dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a second time. It was Joe who rescued Pip from despair and nursed him back to health. Like David Copperfield, the novel draws on parts of Dickens's own personality and experience. Many consider Great Expectations as the most finely achieved novel by Dickens. Pip, the main protagonist, is explored with great subtlety, and his development through a childhood and youth is traced sympathetically.

Les Apparitions de Noël, nouvelle incontournable de Charles Dickens, a été publiée pour la première fois en France en 1847.Vous souhaitez lire autrement et profiter d¿une expérience de lecture originale ?Grâce à notre charte éditoriale, nous vous offrons l¿opportunité de découvrir cette nouvelle dans une édition aérée et dans un grand format, facilitant ainsi votre lecture pour vous permettre de profiter d¿une expérience de lecture unique.

Jedermann weiß, dass der alte Ebenezer Scrooge ein Geizhals ist und ein Herz hat, das kalt wie Eis ist. Noch nicht einmal das freudige Lichterfest am Heiligen Abend kann es auftauen. Doch an diesem Weihnachtsabend erhält der Griesgram ganz besonderen Besuch: Der Geist eines alten Freundes nimmt ihn mit auf eine Reise durch Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, um ihm zu zeigen, dass Nächstenliebe wertvoller ist als Geld.Charles Dickens' »Weihnachtsgeschichte« ist eine jener zeitlosen Erzählungen, die unterhaltsam und lehrreich für junge wie für ältere Leser sind. Bezaubernde Zeichnungen und ein hervorragender Lesefluss machen diese Adaption von Estelle Meyrand zu einem Comic-Märchen zum Verlieben.

The beautiful Nell is a thirteen-year-old orphan who lives with her grandfather in a London bric-a-brac shop. Worried about his charge's future, the old man secretly gambles at night in order to provide an inheritance for her, but finally loses the little he has and is evicted from the shop by the evil hunchback and loan shark Daniel Quilp, suffering a breakdown as a result. Forced to leave the city, the young girl is left to take care of her grandfather and protect herself from the scheming villains who are hot on their heels.Dickens's fourth novel, initially serialized in his magazine Master Humprey's Clock between 1840 and 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop proved to be a huge hit on publication and is still regarded as one of its author's major works, featuring one of his best-loved and most memorable heroines.

First serialised between 1855 and 1857. The novel is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and societyRemains of the Marshalseaof the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts; most other critiques are about other issues with regards to the social safety net: industry, and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British government's ministries; and the separation of people based on the lack of intercourse between the classes