Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte

Marley's Geist

Der Erste der drei Geister

Der Zweite der drei Geister.

Der Letzte der drei Geister

Das Ende

Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

La Petite Doritt

« Scrooge ne savait pas si un spectre aussi transparent pourrait se trouver dans la condition voulue pour prendre un siège [...] Mais le Fantôme s'assit vis-à-vis de lui, de l'autre côté de la cheminée comme s'il ne faisait que cela toute la journée... » Voilà un spectre bien embarrassant, qui n'a pas encore dit son dernier mot... Parviendra-t-il à convertir le cœur gelé de ce vieux grigou de Scrooge ?

Un chant de Noël

Charles Dickens's first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) is a series of loosely-related stories about Pickwick Club founder Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, and the gentlemen of his acquaintance, including Augustus Snodgrass and Tracy Tupman, and his manservant, Sam Weller. Originally published as a serial between 1836 and 1837, The Pickwick Papers became a publishing phenomenon after the introduction of Sam Weller and inspired bootleg copies, joke books, and other merchandise. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club has been adapted for radio, stage, film, and television, and has figured in other prominent novels like Little Women. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club

Esther Summerson, modeste orpheline, a d'abord été recueillie par sa tante, puis par le notable John Jarndyce, propriétaire de Bleak House, qu'elle croit être son père. En réalité, elle est la fille d'un certain Nemo, ancien officier, et de Lady Dedlock, qui, croyant sa fille morte, est partie finir ses jours à l'abri des regards...L'excellent Jarndyce, père de Richard et Ada, s'est occupé d'Esther comme de sa propre fille, après avoir songé à l'épouser... Mais qu'adviendra-t-il de son héritage ? Tous les protagonistes du roman seront, l'un après l'autre, impliqués dans cette sombre question, ressort principal de l'intrigue, et passeront des années dans les tribunaux à régler leurs litiges.Neuvième roman de Dickens, Bleak House parut en feuilleton de mars 1852 à septembre 1853. S'appuyant sur son expérience de clerc, Dickens y dépeint l'état déplorable du système judiciaire anglais, qui sera d'ailleurs réformé en 1870. Son sens du suspense a inspiré La Pierre de Lune de Wilkie Collins (Archipoche, mars 2013).

La mystérieuse Lady Dedlock (Bleak House - Tome 1)

A tale of two cities

Dickens's A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. It is a ghost story set at Christmastime in which a bad-tempered skinflint learns the error of his ways. Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. 

This edition includes all the original illustrations for A Christmas Carol  and reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man..  All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'.

A Christmas carol ; and other Christmas books

Il vecchio mercante londinese Ebenezer Scrooge è ricco, avaro, arido e detestato da tutti. La sua unica preoccupazione è il denaro, poco gli importa di quelli che gli stanno intorno. L'imminente festa del Natale è per lui nient'altro che uno sperpero sconsiderato e la gioia dei suoi simili lo disgusta profondamente. Ma quel Natale Scrooge non lo dimenticherà mai più. Dopo l'apparizione notturna di un suo amico deceduto da diversi anni, riceverà la visita di tre spettri. Tutti avranno qualcosa da mostrargli e le loro rivelazioni cambieranno la sua vita per sempre. Divertente e commovente, con quel tocco di gotico e sovrannaturale che lo rende appassionante e misterioso, il racconto di Scrooge, vecchio avaro, scontroso e solitario che durante la notte di Natale tre fantasmi convertiranno alla gentilezza e alla gioia, continua a sedurre grandi e piccini sin dalla sua prima pubblicazione nel 1843, e resta il racconto più famoso di Dickens e sicuramente uno dei più celebri e amati della letteratura di tutti i tempi.

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