Чарльз Диккенс (англ. Charles Dickens; 1812—1870) — английский писатель, романист и очеркист. Самый популярный англоязычный писатель при жизни, он и в наше время имеет репутацию классика мировой литературы, одного из крупнейших прозаиков XIX века. Творчество Диккенса относят к вершинам реализма, но в его романах отразились и сентиментальное, и сказочное начало. Самые знаменитые романы Диккенса (печатались отдельными выпусками с продолжением): «Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба», «Оливер Твист», «Дэвид Копперфильд», «Большие надежды», «Повесть о двух городах».По материалам Википедии.
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Based on Dickens's and Collins's walking tour in the north of England was serialised in Household Words in October 1857. Collins was a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens. A number of Collins's works were first published in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words. The two collaborated on several dramatic and fictional works, and some of Collins's plays were...
Based on Dickens's and Collins's walking tour in the north of England was serialised in Household Words in October 1857.
Collins was a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens. A number of Collins's works were first published in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words. The two collaborated on several dramatic and fictional works, and some of Collins's plays were...
Based on Dickens's and Collins's walking tour in the north of England was serialised in Household Words in October 1857.
Collins was a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens. A number of Collins's works were first published in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words. The two collaborated on several dramatic and fictional works, and some of Collins's plays were...
Masterful tale unfolded in the carnage, horror and idealism of the French Revolution. Political upheaval frames the story, but Dickens delights in indicting aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excesses. A young Englishman, Sydney Carton, gets swept up in the chaos and ends by heroically sacrificing himself. For the love of a woman he can never have, he exchanges places with his...
Masterful tale unfolded in the carnage, horror and idealism of the French Revolution. Political upheaval frames the story, but Dickens delights in indicting aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excesses. A young Englishman, Sydney Carton, gets swept up in the chaos and ends by heroically sacrificing himself. For the love of a woman he can never have, he exchanges places with his...
Masterful tale unfolded in the carnage, horror and idealism of the French Revolution. Political upheaval frames the story, but Dickens delights in indicting aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excesses. A young Englishman, Sydney Carton, gets swept up in the chaos and ends by heroically sacrificing himself. For the love of a woman he can never have, he exchanges places with his...
EMC, 1998. — 436 p. — (The EMC Masterpiece Series Access Editions). “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” So begins Charles Dickens's riveting tale of ill-fated love and heroic sacrifice, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. In one of his most popular and powerful novels, Dickens paints an unforgettable portrait of London and Paris at the height...
Announcement in "Household Words" of the Approaching Publication of "All the Year Round".
The Poor Man and His Beer.
Five New Points of Criminal Law.
Leigh Hunt: a Remonstrance.
The Tattlesnivel Bleater.
The Young Man from the Country.
An Enlightened Clergyman.
Rather a Strong Dose.
The Martyr Medium.
The Late Mr. Stanfield.
A Slight Question of Fact.
Landor's Life.
Announcement in "Household Words" of the Approaching Publication of "All the Year Round".
The Poor Man and His Beer.
Five New Points of Criminal Law.
Leigh Hunt: a Remonstrance.
The Tattlesnivel Bleater.
The Young Man from the Country.
An Enlightened Clergyman.
Rather a Strong Dose.
The Martyr Medium.
The Late Mr. Stanfield.
A Slight Question of Fact.
Landor's Life.
Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover everything from his uncomfortable sea voyage to an ecstatic narrative of his visit to Niagara Falls. Yet Dickens is also critical of...
Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover everything from his uncomfortable sea voyage to an ecstatic narrative of his visit to Niagara Falls. Yet Dickens is also critical of...
Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover everything from his uncomfortable sea voyage to an ecstatic narrative of his visit to Niagara Falls. Yet Dickens is also critical of...
A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Барнеби Радж. Barnaby Rudge is an early Dickens novel, his first historical novel, of the Gordon riots of 1780, about fifty years before his time. One of Dickens strong points is atmosphere, and this novel is one of his best in that department. His description of the Maypole Inn and its proprietor, slow John, is marvelous. Much of the book describes...
A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Барнеби Радж. Barnaby Rudge is an early Dickens novel, his first historical novel, of the Gordon riots of 1780, about fifty years before his time. One of Dickens strong points is atmosphere, and this novel is one of his best in that department. His description of the Maypole Inn and its proprietor, slow John, is marvelous. Much of the book describes...
A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Барнеби Радж. Barnaby Rudge is an early Dickens novel, his first historical novel, of the Gordon riots of 1780, about fifty years before his time. One of Dickens strong points is atmosphere, and this novel is one of his best in that department. His description of the Maypole Inn and its proprietor, slow John, is marvelous. Much of the book describes...
Soon after she returns to Bleak House, Esther decides to go to London to see Mr. Guppy. First, she visits Caddy and Prince Turveydrop. Taken aback by Esther's scarred face, Guppy emphatically retracts his former marriage proposal to Esther. Esther obtains from him a promise to "relinquish all idea of...serving me." She no longer needs Guppy's assistance in helping her learn her...
Soon after she returns to Bleak House, Esther decides to go to London to see Mr. Guppy. First, she visits Caddy and Prince Turveydrop. Taken aback by Esther's scarred face, Guppy emphatically retracts his former marriage proposal to Esther. Esther obtains from him a promise to "relinquish all idea of...serving me." She no longer needs Guppy's assistance in helping her learn her...
Холодный дом. (Audiobook) Чарлз Диккенс - один из величайших англоязычных прозаиков XIX века. "Просейте мировую литературу - останется Диккенс" - эти слова принадлежат Льву Толстому. Большой мастер создания интриги, Диккенс насытил драму "Холодный дом" тайнами и запутанными сюжетными ходами. Вы будете плакать и смеяться буквально на одной странице, сочувствовать и сострадать...
Delphi Classic. 2012. — 21723 p.
Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had...
Жизнь Дэвида Копперфилда, рассказанная им самим. Книга 1, Книга 2. (Audiobook) The book is an expert blend of fiction and autobiography. While Dickens was not an orphan, he felt abandoned by his parents during the harsh experiences of his early years. David Copperfield's father had died before his birth and his mother dies when he is twelve years old. David had led a happy life...
Жизнь Дэвида Копперфилда, рассказанная им самим. Книга 1, Книга 2. (Audiobook) In his early childhood days, a young boy, David Copperfield, had been living with his mother and their servant Peggotty. His mother marries a very cruel man, Mr. Murdstone and David is being sent away to Salem House where it is not very safe at all. It was a run-down London boarding school where Mr....
Жизнь Дэвида Копперфилда, рассказанная им самим. Книга 1, Книга 2. (Audiobook) In his early childhood days, a young boy, David Copperfield, had been living with his mother and their servant Peggotty. His mother marries a very cruel man, Mr. Murdstone and David is being sent away to Salem House where it is not very safe at all. It was a run-down London boarding school where Mr....
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 27065 p. Now Updated with even more bonus material, this surely has to be the Ultimate dickens eBook, with over 1,600 illustrations. In this colossal edition you will discover every novel, short story, novella, play, poem, letter, speech and article written by Charles Dickens. This really is the Complete dickens. (70MB Version 11)* All 15 novels and All...
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius...is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed...
Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm is nearly ruined by a trusted employee named Carker who also runs away with Dombey's second wife, the scheming Edith Granger. This was the first novel in which Dickens attempted to portray the upper classes as well as...
Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm is nearly ruined by a trusted employee named Carker who also runs away with Dombey's second wife, the scheming Edith Granger. This was the first novel in which Dickens attempted to portray the upper classes as well as...
Домби и сын. 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 on his delicate son Paul. Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombeys second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and...
One of the last pieces of fiction written by Charles Dickens, two years before his death. It is an extraordinary tale, unlike anything else he wrote. It came from a deep and dark place in his psyche, so deep and dark he himself didn’t recognize it: "Upon myself it has made the strangest impression of reality and originality! And I feel as f I had read something (by somebody else)...
One of the last pieces of fiction written by Charles Dickens, two years before his death. It is an extraordinary tale, unlike anything else he wrote. It came from a deep and dark place in his psyche, so deep and dark he himself didn’t recognize it: "Upon myself it has made the strangest impression of reality and originality! And I feel as f I had read something (by somebody else)...
(Audiobooks: Read by Hugh Kaurie &Read by Michael Page) On Christmas Eve of 1812, Pip, an orphan aged 7, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting his family's many graves. The convict scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackles. He threatens that he can't tell anyone about it and he must do as he says or his...
Большие надежды. (Audiobooks: Read by Hugh Kaurie &Read by Michael Page) Pip lives in the marshland of rural England with his older sister and her husband Joe. One day he meets Magwitch, an escaped convict, who asks for his help. Then, Pip is invited by Miss Havisham, a wealthy but eccentric lady, to meet Estella, a beautiful girl whom he immediately falls in love with. How...
Большие надежды. (Audiobooks: Read by Hugh Kaurie &Read by Michael Page) On Christmas Eve of 1812, Pip, an orphan aged 7, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting his family's many graves. The convict scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackles. He threatens that he can't tell anyone about it and he must do as...
Без выходных данных. Роман Чарльза Диккенса - "Большие надежды". Оригинальный английский текст издания 1867 года с параллельным русским переводом. Подходит для расширения словарного запаса английского языка, упрощает понимание оригинального текста. В романе "Большие надежды" - одном из последних произведений Диккенса, жемчужине его творчества - рассказана история жизни и крушения...
The dehumanizing effects of heavy industrialization are given form and bitter indictment in this Dickens novel. Raised by a hard, pragmatic father concerned only with sterile principles, Tom and Louisa Gradgrind grow up with little imagination, culture or concern for others. Louisa chooses Josiah Bounderby for a husband, a vulgar man who owns a bank and a mill, whom she leaves...
The dehumanizing effects of heavy industrialization are given form and bitter indictment in this Dickens novel. Raised by a hard, pragmatic father concerned only with sterile principles, Tom and Louisa Gradgrind grow up with little imagination, culture or concern for others. Louisa chooses Josiah Bounderby for a husband, a vulgar man who owns a bank and a mill, whom she leaves...
Тяжелые времена. Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.
Detective stories. Was it need, or cupidity, or a sense of duty, or sincere, if ill judged, artistic adventurousness that induced Dickens in his maturity to write "Tom Tiddler's Ground" and "A Holiday Romance"? (Collins, "Charles Dickens," Victorian Fiction, 109) In the case of "Hunted Down," a first-person narrative in the manner of Wilkie Collins, the motivation was decidedly...
Detective stories. Was it need, or cupidity, or a sense of duty, or sincere, if ill judged, artistic adventurousness that induced Dickens in his maturity to write "Tom Tiddler's Ground" and "A Holiday Romance"? (Collins, "Charles Dickens," Victorian Fiction, 109) In the case of "Hunted Down," a first-person narrative in the manner of Wilkie Collins, the motivation was decidedly...
Detective stories. Was it need, or cupidity, or a sense of duty, or sincere, if ill judged, artistic adventurousness that induced Dickens in his maturity to write "Tom Tiddler's Ground" and "A Holiday Romance"? (Collins, "Charles Dickens," Victorian Fiction, 109) In the case of "Hunted Down," a first-person narrative in the manner of Wilkie Collins, the motivation was decidedly...
A novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. Dickens thought it to be his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. The novel was seen by some to contain attacks on America, although Dickens himself saw it as satire, similar in spirit to his "attacks" on the people and institutions of England in novels such as Oliver Twist. Americans are...
A novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. Dickens thought it to be his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. The novel was seen by some to contain attacks on America, although Dickens himself saw it as satire, similar in spirit to his "attacks" on the people and institutions of England in novels such as Oliver Twist. Americans are...
A novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. Dickens thought it to be his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. The novel was seen by some to contain attacks on America, although Dickens himself saw it as satire, similar in spirit to his "attacks" on the people and institutions of England in novels such as Oliver Twist. Americans are...
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843 to July 1844) What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this...
Amy Dorrit’s father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam. But Amy’s fortunes are about to change: the arrival of Mrs. Clennam’s son Arthur, back from working in China, heralds the beginning...
Крошка Доррит. Dickens's masterpiece about prison life is set in an English debtors' prison where his own father had been imprisoned. Amy Dorrit, the heroine, has spent her entire life caring for her imprisoned father. The novel portrays both the physical and psychological horrors of imprisonment and the hypocrisy of a society.
Крошка Доррит (Книга первая, Книга вторая). Amy Dorrit’s father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam. But Amy’s fortunes are about to change: the arrival of Mrs. Clennam’s son Arthur, back...
Приключения Оливера Твиста. (Audiobook) One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837 and 1838. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for...
Приключения Оливера Твиста. (Audiobook) One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837 and 1838. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper...
One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837 and 1838. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a...
One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837 and 1838. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a...
Oliver is an orphan who lives until the age of nine in a poorhouse, where he goes hungry and suffers abuse by the Director, Mr. Bumble. The classic scene in which the half starved Oliver begs for some more food and is viciously denied by the obese Mr. Bumble exemplifies the inequity of Victorian society. Oliver is then sent to work at a funeral home. Here, too, he is treated very...
Наш общий друг (Том 1, Том 2). Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to...
Наш общий друг (Том 1, Том 2). Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to...
Наш общий друг (Том 1, Том 2). Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to...
A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language. In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and "Pictures from Italy" is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his - and...
A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language. In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and "Pictures from Italy" is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his - and...
A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language. In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and "Pictures from Italy" is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his - and...
The Long Voyage. The Begging-Letter Writer. A Child's Dream of a Star. Our English Watering-Place. Our French Watering-Place. Bill-Sticking. Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son. Lying Awake. The Ghost of Art. Out of Town. Out of the Season. A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent. The Noble Savage. A Flight. The Detective Police. The Pair of Gloves. Touch The Artful Touch. The Sofa. On Duty with...
The Long Voyage.
The Begging-Letter Writer.
A Child's Dream of a Star.
Our English Watering-Place.
Our French Watering-Place.
Bill-Sticking.
Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son.
Lying Awake.
The Ghost of Art.
Out of Town.
Out of the Season.
A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent.
The Noble Savage.
A Flight.
The Detective Police.
The Pair of Gloves.
Touch The Artful Touch.
The...
The Long Voyage.
The Begging-Letter Writer.
A Child's Dream of a Star.
Our English Watering-Place.
Our French Watering-Place.
Bill-Sticking.
Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son.
Lying Awake.
The Ghost of Art.
Out of Town.
Out of the Season.
A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent.
The Noble Savage.
A Flight.
The Detective Police.
The Pair of Gloves.
Touch The Artful Touch.
The...
The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. Our parish: The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster. The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-pay Captain. The Four Sisters. The...
The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. Our parish: The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster. The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-pay Captain. The Four Sisters. The...
The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. Our parish: The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster. The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-pay Captain. The Four Sisters. The...
Stumbling upon some luggage that has been left behind in the hotel where he works, a waiter searches through it to identify its owner. He fails to discover this, but he does find, secreted away in different parts of the luggage, quite a number of stories. Impressed by their quality, he succeeds in getting them published, although the identity of their author remains a mystery...
Stumbling upon some luggage that has been left behind in the hotel where he works, a waiter searches through it to identify its owner. He fails to discover this, but he does find, secreted away in different parts of the luggage, quite a number of stories. Impressed by their quality, he succeeds in getting them published, although the identity of their author remains a mystery...
Stumbling upon some luggage that has been left behind in the hotel where he works, a waiter searches through it to identify its owner. He fails to discover this, but he does find, secreted away in different parts of the luggage, quite a number of stories. Impressed by their quality, he succeeds in getting them published, although the identity of their author remains a mystery...
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and...
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and...
Dickens talks of the joys of a quiet a Sunday afternoon and the pleasure derived from a day off for the working classes. The pampered aristocrat, whose life is one continued round of licentious pleasures and sensual gratifications; or the gloomy enthusiast, who detests the cheerful amusements he can never enjoy, and envies the healthy feelings he can never know, and who would put...
Dickens talks of the joys of a quiet a Sunday afternoon and the pleasure derived from a day off for the working classes. The pampered aristocrat, whose life is one continued round of licentious pleasures and sensual gratifications; or the gloomy enthusiast, who detests the cheerful amusements he can never enjoy, and envies the healthy feelings he can never know, and who would put...
This lengthy burlesque novel centers around the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. The book is considered to be among the finest works of 19th century comedy. Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help...
This lengthy burlesque novel centers around the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. The book is considered to be among the finest works of 19th century comedy. Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help...
This lengthy burlesque novel centers around the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. The book is considered to be among the finest works of 19th century comedy. Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help...
Воспитательный роман Чарлза Диккенса. Написан в 1838—1839 годах и выпускался 19 отдельными частями с марта 1838 по сентябрь 1839. Каждая часть состояла из 32 страниц текста и двух иллюстраций ценой в один шиллинг. Первое полное издание было издано в лондонском издательстве Чапман & Холл в 1839 году.
The first genuine mystery novel written by Dickens was never finished and was published posthumously in 1870 leaving the mystery unsolved forever. The choirmaster of Cloisterham, Jack Jasper, has a ward named Edwin Drood, a respectable young man engaged to Rosa Bud. Underneath the respectability Drood is an opium addict and no longer loves Rosa, the secret love of Jasper. Drood...
The first genuine mystery novel written by Dickens was never finished and was published posthumously in 1870 leaving the mystery unsolved forever. The choirmaster of Cloisterham, Jack Jasper, has a ward named Edwin Drood, a respectable young man engaged to Rosa Bud. Underneath the respectability Drood is an opium addict and no longer loves Rosa, the secret love of Jasper. Drood...
The first genuine mystery novel written by Dickens was never finished and was published posthumously in 1870 leaving the mystery unsolved forever. The choirmaster of Cloisterham, Jack Jasper, has a ward named Edwin Drood, a respectable young man engaged to Rosa Bud. Underneath the respectability Drood is an opium addict and no longer loves Rosa, the secret love of Jasper. Drood...
A novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret-a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The villainous Quilp wants to get...
A novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret-a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The villainous Quilp wants to get...
A novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret-a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The villainous Quilp wants to get...
Х. : Прапор, 1999. — 30 c. — (Серия: easy Reading Series / книга 9). — ISBN: 5-7766-0693-4. Книга для чтения, адаптированное издание (Английский язык для начинающих). В данном выпуске - несколько эпизодов из знаменитого романа классика английской литературы Ч. Диккенса "Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба". Выпуск 9 предназначен для учащихся учебных заведений и для тех, кто...
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens.
Dickens was a young man, 24 years old, who had written nothing more than a group of sketches dealing mainly with London life. A firm of London publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, was then projecting a series of cockney sporting plates by illustrator Robert...
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens.
Dickens was a young man, 24 years old, who had written nothing more than a group of sketches dealing mainly with London life. A firm of London publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, was then projecting a series of cockney sporting plates by illustrator Robert...
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens.
Dickens was a young man, 24 years old, who had written nothing more than a group of sketches dealing mainly with London life. A firm of London publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, was then projecting a series of cockney sporting plates by illustrator Robert...
A short story. Six Poor Travellers House is a 16th-century charity house in Rochester, Medway, founded by the local MP Richard Watts to provide free lodgings for poor travellers. Watts left money in his will for the benefit of six poor travellers, each of whom, according to a plaque on the outside of the building, would be given lodging and "entertainment" for one night before...
A short story.
Six Poor Travellers House is a 16th-century charity house in Rochester, Medway, founded by the local MP Richard Watts to provide free lodgings for poor travellers. Watts left money in his will for the benefit of six poor travellers, each of whom, according to a plaque on the outside of the building, would be given lodging and "entertainment" for one night before...
A short story.
Six Poor Travellers House is a 16th-century charity house in Rochester, Medway, founded by the local MP Richard Watts to provide free lodgings for poor travellers. Watts left money in his will for the benefit of six poor travellers, each of whom, according to a plaque on the outside of the building, would be given lodging and "entertainment" for one night before...
A collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Of particular interest are the elements of autobiography Dickens includes such as his reminiscences and opinions on his childhood home town, Chatham, under the name Dullborough. He also describes the period of enforced inactivity—A Fly-Leaf in Life—he was forced to endure after a collapse due to a hectic schedule of public...
A collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Of particular interest are the elements of autobiography Dickens includes such as his reminiscences and opinions on his childhood home town, Chatham, under the name Dullborough. He also describes the period of enforced inactivity—A Fly-Leaf in Life—he was forced to endure after a collapse due to a hectic schedule of public...
A collection of literary sketches and reminiscences. Of particular interest are the elements of autobiography Dickens includes such as his reminiscences and opinions on his childhood home town, Chatham, under the name Dullborough. He also describes the period of enforced inactivity—A Fly-Leaf in Life—he was forced to endure after a collapse due to a hectic schedule of public...
A short story.
Captain Ravender and first mate Steadiman are bringing the Golden Mary from England to California, for the gold rush, when they run into an iceberg rounding Cape Horn. Crew and passengers make it into boats, as the ship is clearly going down, and row and drift around the South Pacific until being picked up just as they are all about to expire.
The captain and...
A short story.
Captain Ravender and first mate Steadiman are bringing the Golden Mary from England to California, for the gold rush, when they run into an iceberg rounding Cape Horn. Crew and passengers make it into boats, as the ship is clearly going down, and row and drift around the South Pacific until being picked up just as they are all about to expire.
The captain and...
A short story.
Captain Ravender and first mate Steadiman are bringing the Golden Mary from England to California, for the gold rush, when they run into an iceberg rounding Cape Horn. Crew and passengers make it into boats, as the ship is clearly going down, and row and drift around the South Pacific until being picked up just as they are all about to expire.
The captain and...
A short story. Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean...
A short story. Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean...
A short story. Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean...
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