Set in an industrial city in Northern England during the Victorian era, Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy and retired man, devotes his life to the rationalist philosophy, and raises his children, Louisa and Tom, to never engage in any...

The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from most of Dickens's other works. The storyline alternates between Britain and the United States in ways which highlight the failings...

Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the three ghosts of Christmas. They show him the joy of Christmas, and wretchedness of his own legacy. Inspired and chastened by what he has seen, Scrooge resolves to change and...

"Little Dorrit" von Charles Dickens ist ein Roman, der die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen im viktorianischen England untersucht. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Amy Dorrit, auch bekannt als Little Dorrit, die in einem...

"Nicholas Nickleby" von Charles Dickens erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Nicholas, der nach dem Tod seines Vaters gezwungen ist, für den Lebensunterhalt seiner Familie zu sorgen. Er verlässt mit seiner Schwester Kate und seiner Mutter...

A Tale of Two Cities is a classic tale of injustice and sacrifice set in London and Paris in the years surrounding the French Revolution. von Dickens, Charles

",Fröhliche Weihnachten? Was für ein Recht hast du, fröhlich zu sein? Du bist arm genug.' ,Nun', antwortete der Neffe heiter, was für ein Recht haben Sie, grämlich zu sein? Sie sind reich genug.' "Drei Geister besuchen den grantigen...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon...

"Ferienmärchen" von Charles Dickens ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen, die ursprünglich in der Zeitschrift "Household Words" veröffentlicht wurden. Die Geschichten sind geprägt von Dickens' charakteristischem Stil, der soziale Missstände...

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Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays...