Tales of Two Cities (Dover Classics)
It is the latter part of the eighteenth century, France and England are at war. Then the French Revolution begins and some people who were friends become enemies. But strange things happen in such turbulent times.
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3,92 €
David Copperfield
Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) 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.
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4,61 €
Complete Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
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.
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4,61 €
A Tale of Two Cities (Oxford World´s Classics)
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of view, showing how private experience relates to public history. Dickens' characters are fictional, and their political activity is minimal, yet all are drawn towards the Paris of the Terror, and all become caught up in its web of human suffering and human sacrifice. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes giving crucial background information about the Revolution and Dickens' sources. 'the best story I have written' Charles Dickens
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3,65 €
Dickens - A Christmas Carol and Two Other ...
Tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn´t change his ways he will die a miserable man.
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14,11 €
Cricket on the Heart (Dover Classics)
Three of Charles Dickens' Christmas stories: 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Holly Tree' and 'The Haunted House'.
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2,79 €
Oliver Twist /PPC/
Dickens' second novel is a compelling portrait of the clash between the innocence of childhood and a dark criminal underworld inhabited by a vivid cast of wicked or compromised characters. This new edition aims to place this mythical story of the struggle between good and evil firmly within the context of the early Victorian attitudes to crime and its punishment, and Dickens' own evolution as a novelist.
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2,90 €
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 up in
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6,57 €
CHRISTMAS CAROL
Scrooge is a cold, mean man. He loves only money and is cruel to the people around him. Scrooge is visited by ghosts who show him his past, his life now and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
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4,05 €
Great Expectations +CD
Psychologically the latter part of Great Expectations is about the best thing Dickens ever did. --George Orwell Philip Pirrip--known more commonly as Pip--is an orphan. His visits to the mysterious Miss Havisham are his only escape from his childhood of poverty. But then an anonymous bequest changes his life for ever--until secrets from Pip's past emerge, threatening to destroy the genteel new life he has built for himself, and Pip soon discovers the merciless cruelty of love, and the harsh reality of his great expectations.
Nehéz idők
Dickens utolsó nagy alkotói korszakában, 1854-ben jelentette meg a "Nehéz idők"-et. Részben hagyományos dickensi mű ez: társadalomjobbító harcának eredményes, tényleges változásokat hozó állomásai, a dologház, az adósok börtöne, a jogszolgáltatás, a kíméletlen iskolarendszer leleplezése közül most az ipari forradalom utáni munkássors sivárságának, kilátástalanságának bemutatása került sorra. Annyiban pedig teljesen új, hogy előtte az angol irodalomban senki nem foglalkozott a gyárvárosok szegényeinek világával, a munkáscsaládok tudatlanságával, reménytelenségével, alkoholizmusba menekülésével. A helyszín a képzeletbeli észak-angliai gyárváros, Coketown. Gradgrind, az utilitárius elveket valló iskolaigazgató csakis tényeket óhajt a nebulók fejébe verni, képzeletről, "csodálkozásról" hallani sem akar. Ebben a szellemben neveli két gyermekét is: Louisa leányát, akit a lelketlen gyároshoz, Josiah Bounderbyhoz ad feleségül, és fiát, Tomot, aki Bounderby bankjában kap állást. A két fiatal addig éli szeretetlen, örömtelen életét, míg a haszonelvű gondolkodásmód majdnem minden emberséget kiöl belőlük, s egy jóravaló munkás életét is tönkreteszik. Hajdani iskolatársuk, a vándorcirkusz bohócának lánya, a képzelet, a "csodálkozás" gyermeke, Sissy mutat végül utat nekik, hogy legalább valamit helyrehozhassanak mindabból, amit az előző generáció - tanítók, "reformerek", politikusok - elrontott. A nagy történész, Macaulay helytelenítően "komor szocialista" műnek nevezte a regényt, a kapitalista társadalom korabeli romantikus bírálói, John Ruskin és William Morris viszont lelkesen magasztalták, George Orwell pedig a benne megnyilvánuló "nemes haragot" dicsérte. A könyvből készült 1977-es, John Irvin rendezte angol tévéfilmsorozatban többek között Patrick Allen és Edward Fox alakította a főszerepeket.
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13,08 €
Great Expectations +CD
Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a vast amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. Who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Lif
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11,90 €
Great Expectations + CD
Pip Pirrip is a poor orphan boy destined to become a blacksmith. But a chance meeting with an escaped convict and an invitation to the house of the eccentric Miss Havisham mark the beginning of great changes in his life. After receiving a large amount of money from a secret benefactor Pip goes to London to be educated as a ‘gentleman’. But who is his secret benefactor?
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13,77 €
Tale of Two Cities + CD
Dr Manette is falsely imprisoned for 18 years by the Marquis of Evrémonde. He is eventually released and goes to England to join his daughter Lucie, who marries the Frenchman Charles Darnay of the Evrémonde family. During the Reign of Terror Darnay travels to Paris, where he is imprisoned and sentenced to be executed...
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14,64 €
