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"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.

Les carillons

Presents the story of the daughter of an imprisoned debtor, who works to free her family from their circumstances as she suffers the injustices of nineteenth-century English society.

Little Dorrit

Every day in December, discover with this Advent Calendar Storybook a wonderful Christmas tale!

Written by the greatest storytellers (Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry...), these 24 traditional stories will keep you waiting until D-day. This collection ends with one of Charles Dickens' most beautiful Christmas tales, the story of Scrooge and the three spirits. 

Contents:

1st December The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry 

2nd December A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True by Louisa May Alcott 

3rd December The Fir-Tree by Hans Christian Andersen 

4th December Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells 

5th December Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy 

6th December A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum 

7th December Merry Christmas by Stephen Leacock 

8th December A Stolen Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 

9th December A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens 

10th December How the Captain Made Christmas by Thomas Nelson Page 

11th December At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov 

12th December A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson 

13th December What Christmas is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens 

14th December What the Bell Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 

15th December How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats by Elia W. Peattie 

16th December Christmas; or, The Good Fairy by Harriet Beecher Stowe 

17th December Christmas at Red Butte by Lucy Maud Montgomery 

18th December Christmas by Washington Irving 

19th December The Last Dream of Old Oak by Hans Christian Andersen 

20th December Christmas Jenny by Mary E. Wilkins Free 

21st December The Elves and The Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm 

22nd December The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 

23rd December The Night Before Christmas: A Morality by William Dean Howells 

24th December A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

24 Christmas Tales - Advent Calendar Storybook

Dickens' great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound editionThis is the novel Dickens regarded as his "favourite child" and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr. Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father that evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia, and guilt.

David Copperfield

Oliver Twist naît orphelin dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle. Exploité, maltraité dès sa plus tendre enfance, le jeune garçon endure tout. Mais un jour, il trouve refuge à Londres. D'abord recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs puis par un brigand qui veut en faire son complice, cette découverte des bas-fonds londoniens est une véritable initiation au vice et au crime

Oliver Twist

Nicolas, sa mère et sa soeur Kate, se retrouvent à Londres sans un sou, à la mort de leur père. L'Oncle Ralph, vieux grigou sans coeur, place Nicolas comme surveillant à Dotheboys-Hall, où Wackford Squeers maltraite une quarantaine de petits garçons délaissés par leurs parents. Mais un jour, excédé par la cruauté de Squeers, Nicolas le bâtonne et s'enfuit, en emmenant Smike, un garçon un peu simple d'esprit, qui sert de souffre-douleur au maître de pension.Voilà le début de la vie mouvementée de Nicolas. Dickens en profite pour dénoncer les traitements scandaleux infligés alors à l'enfance abandonnée. Il vous transporte dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle dépeint plus spécialement la vie pittoresque mais sordide des quartiers les plus pauvres de Londres.

Nicolas Nickleby

Le vieux Caleb est un pauvre fabricant de jouets. Mais il fait croire à sa fille aveugle qu'elle vit dans le luxe, unique moyen pour lui, de témoigner son amour au seul être cher qu'il a au monde et de lui apporter un peu de joie...

Ce conte émouvant, tant pour les enfants que pour les grands, fait également partie des « Contes de Noël »

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