General & literary fiction/Classic fiction

Oliver Twist (commande ferme)

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, WJECLevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017

 This edition of A Christmas Carol is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. 

 'If I could work my will, ' said Scrooge, indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'

 Miser and misanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge hates the festive season. Can the visitations of his dead business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and yet to come shake him from his habits, to show him the true value of Christmas?

 Dickens's 1843 story was written in response to the plight of the poor, the hungry, the exploited and the uneducated in Victorian society, suggesting that the true test of a society is the way it treats its children.

A Christmas Carol

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." So begins Charles Dickens's classic A Tale of Two Cities. Published in 31 weekly installments from April to November 1859, A Tale of Two Cities captures the tension and uncertainty of life in France during the French Revolution, and its corresponding parallels within London society. One of only two works of historical fiction by Dickens (the other being Barnaby Rudge), A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of Charles Darney and his wife Lucie Manette, who are French aristocrats, and Sydney Carton, an English barrister in love with Lucie. HarperPerennialClassics 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 Tale Of Two Cities

The mystery of Edwin Drood

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

" 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 Noel

Sur fond d'un interminable procès, impliquant une cinquantaine de personnages, Bleak House est le grand roman juridique de Dickens, qui dénonce une institution devenue folle. Raconté par deux personnages différents, de manière très moderne, le récit met en jeu tout un réseau de coïncidences, plusieurs fausses pistes et nombre d'espoirs déçus ou trahis. Roman foisonnant où la justice tourne à l'absurde, où l'on enquête et juge à l'infini, Bleak House est aussi un roman policier dont le véritable héros est Londres, la ville à l'atmosphère empoisonnée par la révolution industrielle. Dans une veine à la fois satirique, sombre et constamment drôle, Dickens décrit un monde où la nature est peu à peu corrompue par l'homme, et signe là son passage définitif vers le roman total.

Oliver Twist (commande ferme)

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