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Charles Dickens
Spisovateľ, tvorca anglického kritického realizmu, publicista a novinár Charles Dickens sa narodil 7. februára v roku 1812.

Romány tohto velikána svetovej literatúry sa vyznačujú bohatosťou scén, až sentimentálnym súcitom s utrpením chudobných, ostrou kritikou spoločenských nedostatkov a nespravodlivosti. Spisovateľ viktoriánskej éry Spojeného kráľovstva (obdobie 1837-1901) sa vo svojich literárnych dielach, ale aj vo verejnom živote zaoberal hlavne sociálnymi pomermi a s nimi súvisiacou zločinnosťou a súdnym systémom. Dickensove dielo je poznačené jeho trpkým a neradostným detstvom v rodine malého úradníka, ktorý sa pre svoje dlhy dostal do väzenia a až nečakané dedičstvo pomohlo rodine z finančných problémov. Malý Charles Dickens teda už vo svojich dvanástich rokoch pracoval ako robotník v továrni. Táto práca a návštevy vo väzení zanechali v jeho vnímavej duši pocit poníženia a odporu, s ktorým sa často stretávame v jeho neskoršej tvorbe, najmä v románe David Copperfield.
      Charles John Huffam Dickens sa narodil 7. februára 1812 v Portsmouthe. Vďaka svojej húževnatosti a vytrvalosti sa z veľmi chudobného chlapca vypracoval na skutočnú hviezdu literárneho neba. Vzdelanie nadobudol vlastnou usilovnosťou, lebo náruživo čítal staré romány a navštevoval Britské múzeum. Ako 15-ročný sa stal pisárom v kancelárii právneho zástupcu. Naučil sa rýchlopis a v roku 1835 sa stal súdnym a parlamentným spravodajcom časopisu Morning Cronicle.
      Literárnu dráhu začal Dickens v roku 1833 drobnými časopiseckými črtami a poviedkami, ktoré písal pod pseudonymom Boz. Zachytával v nich londýnske prostredie a postavy i z nižších spoločenských vrstiev. Boli to práce plné humoru a vtipov a medzi čitateľmi veľmi obľúbené. Keď v roku 1836 svoje črty vydal knižne ako Bozove črty, nakladateľ ho vyzval k spolupráci na humoristickom seriáli, z čoho vznikla kniha Pamäti Klubu Pickwickovcov. Toto prvé rozsiahle dielo ho preslávilo, ľudový humor a nezabudnuteľné postavy si získali nesmiernu popularitu.
      Román Oliver Twist a nezabudnuteľné zážitky chudobného chlapca, ako aj filmové spracovanie románu obletelo celý svet. Dickens je autorom aj ďalších literárnych titulov, napríklad Malá Dorritka, Pochmúrny dom, Nádejné vyhliadky, Starožitnícky sklep, Barnaby Rudge či historický román z obdobia protikatolíckych nepokojov okolo roku 1780. Americké poznámky napísal po prvej návšteve Spojených štátov amerických (USA). Napísal aj Vianočné knihy s rozprávkami, ako Vianočná pieseň, Novoročné zvony, atď. Pre detského čitateľa vyšlo na Slovensku z tejto oblasti v roku 1999 unikátne dielo Evanjelium podľa Dickensa. Autor v ňom rozpráva evanjeliá svojim desiatim deťom prosto a ľudsky, tak, aby sa im vštepili hlboko do duše i srdca. Dickens považoval toto svoje rozprávanie za súkromnú vec a po celý život ho odmietal publikovať. Kniha uzrela svetlo sveta až po jeho smrti a prológ k slovenskému vydaniu napísal Milan Rúfus.
      Dickens, slávny nielen v Európe, ale aj v USA, ktoré navštívil dvakrát (v rokoch 1841 a 1867) usporadúval turné, na ktorých čítal svoje diela, lebo miloval živý kontakt s čitateľmi. Zomrel náhle 9. júna 1870 vo veku 58 rokov v Gadshill pri písaní svojho posledného románu Záhada Edwina Drooda. Pochovali ho vo Westminsterskom opátstve.
      Britská Kráľovská mincovňa prišla 6. decembra 2011 s neobvyklým nápadom, ako si pripomenúť 200. narodeniny spisovateľa Charlesa Dickensa - vydala novú mincu s portrétom autora, vytvoreného z názvov niektorých jeho najslávnejších beletristických diel.
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´Dom-bey and Son...Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey´s life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.´ The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred
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The Christmas Books


Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens's other Christmas writings collected here include "The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton", the short story from "The Pickwick Papers" on which "A Christmas Carol" was based, along with shorter pieces drawn from the "Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembrance.
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A Christmas Carol


After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was ´seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality´ and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along wit
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Mystery of Edwin Drood


´Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. ´Where is your nephew?´ repeated Neveille. ´Why do you ask me?´ ´I ask you,´ retorted Jasper, ´because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.´ The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens´
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Vánoční koleda CD


Proslulý vánoční příběh o starém lakomci, kterému duchové ukážou svět chudých a změní tak jeho smýšlení. Klasické dílo z pera Charlese Dickense patří dodnes k oblíbené vánoční četbě a dočkalo se i mnoha filmových zpracování. Josef Somr je v roli skrblíka Scrooge excelentní a jeho strhující vyprávění činí z této audioknihy jedinečný posluchačský zážitek. Neopakovatelnou atmosféru Vánoc "ve staré dobré Anglii" dodává nahrávce i originální hudba.
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OWC Nicholas Nickleby


Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befr iending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society.
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David Copperfield


David Copperfield’s happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When David’s mother dies, he is sent to work in London. He hates his job so he runs away. He has no money for food or for travelling. But it is the beginning of his life of adventure.
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OWC Barnaby Rudge


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 u p in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in t he riots put Barnaby's life in jeopardy. Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the descriptions of the riots are among Dickens's most powerful. Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain, Ba rnaby Rudge explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. It looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens's later novels, whose characters also seek refuge from a chaotic and unstable world.
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Great Expectations


In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
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Great Expectations


Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings – one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. And who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune?
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Hard Times (Oxford World´s Classics)


Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen.
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Classic / British English David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When David's mother dies, he is sent to work in London. He hates his job so he runs away. He has no money for food or for travelling. But it is the beginning of his life of adventure.
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Christmas Carol (Dover Classics)


Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, learns the true meaning of Christmas after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future.
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Hard Times (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)


Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen 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.
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Oliver Twist


Charles Dickens is perhaps the English-speaking world’s most beloved novelist—and Oliver Twist is one of his most popular works. A heartbreaking tale that portrays the cruelty of the Victorian era at its worst, it has been adapted for film, for the theatre (including the classic musical, Oliver!), and for television. Dickens’s dark and gritty story follows the adventures of an unfortunate orphan who goes from a harsh work house into to the wider, more dangerous world of the London slums. Many of the book’s characters have become household names, in particular the colorful criminals Fagin and the “Artful Dodger.” Packed with pity, suspense, humor, and vitality, Oliver Twist captures the thrilling battle of good against evil...all with an innocent young boy at its center. The world's greatest works of literature are now available in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement, entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of these novels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalled period feel that will grace the library, the bedside table or bureau.
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