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Great Expectations

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Contes de Noël

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A Christmas Carol:
The tale has been viewed by critics as an indictment of 19th-century industrial capitalism. It has been credited with restoring the holiday to one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and sombreness.
The Chimes:
The story of Trotty Veck, a poor ticket porter, whose outlook is changed from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve. 
The Cricket on the Hearth:
Short tale written by Charles Dickens as a Christmas book for 1845 but published in 1846. The title creature is a sort of barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot, but the cricket through its supernatural powers restores John's confidence and all ends happily.
The Battle of Life:
In this tale, the main characters live in a rural English village that was the site of an historic battle. The battle comes to symbolize the struggles these characters face in their daily lives.
The Haunted Man:
The Haunted Man is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first of the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centers around a Professor Redlaw and those close to him.
Charles John Huffam 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 scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

5 Christmas Books (Unabridged and Fully Illustrated: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man)

A Charles Dickens Christmas features four stories from the Victorian storyteller that encapsulate the true spirit of the holidays. Tales such as The Chimes, a New Year's story of redemption, The Cricket on the Hearth, a fairy tale of home, The Battle of Life, an inspiring love story, and The Haunted Man, a story of finding the spirit of Christmas, are the perfect complement to a cold winter's night spent curled up reading by the fire. 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.

A Charles Dickens Christmas

Nicolas Nickleby appartient, comme on le devinera aisément, à la jeunesse de son auteur. C'est au printemps de 1838, Olivier Twist n'en étant encore qu'à mi-chemin, que Dickens fait paraître la première livraison mensuelle de Nickleby sans avoir le moindre bout de manuscrit d'avance, ni se faire une idée bien claire - si ce n'est pour le point de départ - du second des deux considérables romans qu'il va mener de front. Les contes qui terminent ce volume s'échelonnent de 1843 à 1848 et nous retrouvons en eux ceux que nous lisions dans notre enfance, habillés de rouge par Hachette, sous le titre de Contes de Noël.

Nicolas Nickleby : Livres de Noël

Au cours de la nuit précédant Noël, un vieillard acariâtre et avare, nommé " Ebenezer Scrooge " reçoit la visite successive de trois fantômes incarnant le Noël passé présent et futur. Chacun des trois fantômes lui fait revivre un moment de sa vie qui lui fait prendre conscience qu'il ne trouvera la paix qu'en se consacrant aux autres

Le conte de Noël

Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick - Tome 2

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met.

The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

(from wikipedia.org)

A Tale of two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life."

(from wikipedia.org)

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