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Oliver Twist (commande ferme)

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

« 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

Né dans un hospice, Oliver Twist n'a que neuf ans quand il est placé  comme apprenti chez un croque-mort. Affamé et maltraité, il s'enfuit et gagne Londres.  Il tombe alors entre les griffes du terrible Fagin, chef d'une bande de jeunes pickpockets qui a élu refuge dans les bas-fonds de la capitale... 

Le petit orphelin parviendra-t-il à échapper à son destin et à trouver sa place en ce monde ? Un roman inoubliable en version abrégée.

Les aventures d'Oliver Twist (version abrégée)

Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few legal scrapes.

The Pickwick papers

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

Les Tuggs à Ramsgate

Lorsqu'en 1850 il publie David Copperfield, Charles Dickens offre à ses lecteurs le premier roman qu'il ait écrit à la première personne, et, derrière l'histoire de son jeune héros, c'est aussi parfois la sienne qu'on peut lire. Mais ce que dessinent surtout les douloureuses premières années, le dur apprentissage de la vie dans une fabrique, puis la fuite et l'errance picaresque du jeune Copperfield, c'est un roman de formation où le personnage se fait son propre biographe. Il arrive alors qu'on ne sache pas si le réel évoqué est celui que l'enfant vécut au présent ou celui que l'adulte revisite au passé. Car, d'épreuve en épreuve, c'est une nouvelle image de soi que le narrateur peu à peu reconstruit, avant de devenir lui-même, à la fin du livre, un écrivain semblable à celui qui, dès le début, a pris la plume pour raconter sa vie - et nous offrir ce qui est encore aujourd'hui le plus grand roman anglais du XIXe siècle. Edition de Laurent Bury et Jean-Pierre Naugrette.

Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world.

In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres. The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story.

Contents:

E. F. Benson

CATERPILLARS

THE SANCTUARY

THE THING IN THE HALL

THE TERROR BY NIGHT

Ambrose Bierce

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT

Algernon Blackwood

THE WILLOWS

Ulric Daubeny

THE SUMACH

Charles Dickens

THE SIGNAL-MAN

Arthur Conan Doyle

THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX

Lord Dunsany

DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER

William Fryer Harvey

ACROSS THE MOORS

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST

W. W. Jacobs

THE MONKEY'S PAW

Henry James

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Franz Kafka

IN THE PENAL COLONY

David H. Keller

THE THING IN THE CELLAR

Henry Kuttner

THE GRAVEYARD RATS

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

CARMILLA

H. P. Lovecraft

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

POLARIS

THE QUEST OF IRANON

THE RATS IN THE WALLS

A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

THE SHUNNED HOUSE

THE SILVER KEY

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST

THE STREET

THE TEMPLE

THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

THE TOMB

THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO

THE TREE

UNDER THE PYRAMIDS

THE VERY OLD FOLK

WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

Arthur Machen

THE GREAT GOD PAN

M. R. James

THE MEZZOTINT

THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL

THE ASH-TREE

NUMBER 13

COUNT MAGNUS

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

Vincent O'Sullivan

WHEN I WAS DEAD

Edgar Allan Poe

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

THE TELL-TALE HEART

Margaret Ronan

FINGER! FINGER!

Saki

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