"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!"

Hard Times

Le Magasin d'antiquités

Charles Dickens
Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire. 
Le Magasin d'antiquités raconte l'histoire de Nell Trent, belle et vertueuse jeune fille de « pas tout à fait quatorze ans ». Orpheline, elle vit avec son grand-père maternel, resté sans nom, au milieu du bric-à-brac de son magasin d'antiquités. Son existence est solitaire, presque uniquement consacrée à l'amour du vieillard et aux soins qu'elle lui prodigue ; sans véritable compagne ou compagnon de son âge, son seul ami est Kit, le jeune employé de la boutique à qui elle tente d'enseigner l'écriture.
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Le Magasin d'antiquités

De Grandes espérances, achevé en 1861, conte depuis l'enfance la vie d'un apprenti forgeron, appelé à Londres, instruit pour devenir l'honorable membre d'une bonne société maculée de crimes. Pip manquera d'y perdre son coeur.

De grandes espérances

"Schwere Zeiten" ist ein Roman von Charles Dickens. Der Originaltitel lautet "Hard Times".

Schwere Zeiten

This carefully crafted ebook: "5 Christmas Books (Unabridged and Fully Illustrated: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
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)

"Oliver Twist" ist ein Gesellschaftsroman von Charles Dickens, der unter dem vollständigen Titel "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress" ("Oliver Twist oder der Weg des Fürsorgezöglings") von Februar 1837 bis April 1839 in Fortsetzungen in der Zeitschrift "Bentley's Miscellany" erschien. Oliver Twist ist Dickens' zweiter Roman. Er wurde mehrfach für Theater, Kino, Fernsehen und Comic adaptiert.

Oliver Twist

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. The book was written and published in early Victorian era Britain, a period when there was strong nostalgia for old Christmas traditions together with the introduction of new customs, such as Christmas trees and greeting cards. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.

Un Chant De Noël: Une Histoire De Fantômes Pour Noël

Walter Wilding, riche négociant en vin, mène une vie heureuse auprès de sa mère, à qui il doit sa fortune et sa réussite sociale. A la mort de celle-ci, la découverte d'un terrible secret va bouleverser son existence : il n'est pas son vrai fils ! Rangé par la culpabilité d'avoir usurpé l'identité - et l'héritage - d'un autre, Walter décide de se lancer à la recherche de ce mystérieux double. Mais qui est donc le véritable Walter Wilding ? L'abîme, chef-d'oeuvre encore méconnu signé par deux grands noms de la littérature,conjugue le talent de Charles Dickens pour les ambiances et les personnages à celui de Wilkie Collins, génie des énigmes et du mystère.

L'abîme

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel. 

He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836.

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