Charles Dickens

Book #3 in Dickens' Christmas Books. “There are voices in a quiet house, if one only listens.” The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) is the third of Dickens’ Christmas books, a lighthearted tale focused on home life rather than the social criticism found in his other works. The story is set in...

Adaptada a la pantalla grande incontables veces, protagonizada por actores de renombre como Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow y Anthony Hopkins, entre otros, Grandes Esperanzas es una de las últimas novelas de Charles Dickens y es un clásico de la literatura...

Orphaned at birth to labor in a workhouse, Oliver Twist is barely ten when he flees for London. There he befriends young Jack Dawkins, who educates the innocent Oliver in the ways of survival. When Jack draws Oliver into a gang of juvenile pickpockets, tutored by the unscrupulous Fagin...

David Copperfield erzählt im Rückblick seine Lebensgeschichte von der Kindheit an bis zum erfolgreichen Schriftsteller mit Familie. Die vier Etappen sind: Kindheit, Ausbildung, Beruf und Ehe mit Dora, Neuanfang mit Agnes. Damit verbunden sind mehrere teilweise tragische ...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.

Oliver Twist doesn't ask for much—just a little more. When a hungry orphan speaks up, he's hurled from the workhouse into London's maze of alleys, where charm comes cheap and danger wears a friendly grin.

Narra la historia de John Peerybingle, un cartero bondadoso, y su esposa Dot, cuyo hogar está protegido por un grillo mágico. La trama incluye malentendidos, la sospecha de infidelidad, y la redención del avaro Tackleton, culminando en la reconciliación y el regreso de un hijo perdido.

Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens is a quietly luminous collection of holiday reflections that capture the emotional heart of Christmas rather than its spectacle. Written in the mid-19th century, these short works explore memory, childhood wonder, family bonds, and the gentle...

Long before the modern detective novel took shape, Charles Dickens was already probing the darker corners of human motive, deception, and moral decay. Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens gathers Dickens’s most incisive explorations of crime and character, led by the haunting...

Mid-19th century Britain—and America—come to life in this darkly humored classic by Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit the elder is an old man whose death will result in a vast inheritance—but for whom is the question. Though his avaricious and sycophantic relatives hope to benefit from...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So begins one of Charles Dickens’ most enduring and powerful works. A Tale of Two Cities sweeps listeners into the turmoil of the French Revolution, capturing both the grandeur and the horror of the era. Set between the contrasting...

‘It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature.’ Dickens’s first novel, The Pickwick Papers was a huge success at the time of publication, and helped launch Dickens as the literary...

The Signal-Man is a haunting and suspenseful tale by Charles Dickens, exploring themes of isolation, fear, and the supernatural. In this eerie short story, a railway signalman shares his disturbing encounters with a ghostly figure that seems to warn of impending tragedies. As he confides in a...

Book #2 in Dickens' Christmas Books series. ‘A new heart for a New Year, always!’ Published after the huge success of A Christmas Carol in 1844, The Chimes is the second instalment in Dickens’s charming series of festive books. Toby Veck is a poor, elderly city messenger, nicknamed...

Cuento de Navidad es una novela corta que cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y egoísta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su transformación tras recibir la visita de una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. Este relato fue muy bien recibido por los lectores y los críticos. Scrooge era un señor muy...

A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it...

The Big Book of Christmas: Classic Stories and Poems is a grand compilation that assembles a treasure trove of holiday tales and poems from a remarkable array of authors. This extensive collection includes 100 classic works, each thoughtfully illustrated, to immerse readers in the magic and...

Charles Dickens' masterful historical novel, set in Paris and London during the French Revolution, combines life-and-death adventure with a moving personal story. Lucie Manette, daughter of a revolutionary hero, and Charles Darnay, an aristocrat sympathetic to the poor, are in love. When...

This is Charles Dickens’s second novel and regarded as one of his best. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and titled; Oliver Twist, or; A Parish Boys Progress. As a book, it first appeared in 1838 in three volumes. The story follows the title character Oliver Twist...

Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, the orphaned Oliver escapes and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart, and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful...