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

"Oliver Twist était devenu un garçon pâle, maigre et de taille plutôt petite pour son âge. Mais la nature ou l'hérédité lui avait mis dans le coeur un tempérament solide [...]."

Oliver Twist - Occasion

Un chant de Noël

"The Big Book of Christmas: Classic Stories and Poems - Illustrated" is a grand compilation that assembles a treasure trove of holiday tales and poems from a remarkable array of authors. This extensive collection includes 100 classic works, each thoughtfully illustrated, to immerse readers in the magic and wonder of the Christmas season.

This anthology spans a rich tapestry of Christmas literature, including timeless favorites such as "The Gift of the Magi," "The Red Room," "A Letter from Santa Claus," "The Fir Tree," "Song of the Holly," and many more. These stories and poems capture the spirit of Christmas through diverse voices, styles, and settings, offering readers a diverse and enriching experience.
Contents:
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
G.K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol
L.M. Montgomery
The Red Room
A Christmas Mistake
A Christmas Inspiration
The Josephs' Christmas
Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Osbornes' Christmas
Bertie's New Year
Ida's New Year Cake
The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
Clorinda's Gifts
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
The Unforgotten One
Christmas at Red Butte
Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner
L. Frank Baum
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Little Bun Rabbit
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus
Louisa May Alcott
A Country Christmas
Cousin Tribulation's Story
What the Bell Saw and Said
Tilly's Christmas
Tessa's Surprises
Kate's Choice
The Boys' Joke, And Who Got The Best Of It
The Quiet Little Woman
Rosa's Tale
A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came
A Merry Christmas
Leo Tolstoy
A Russian Christmas Party
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells
The Three Kings
Nikolai Gogol
Christmas Eve
William Dean Howells
Christmas Everyday
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India
Elizabeth Harrison
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
John Milton
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hans Christian Andersen
The Fir Tree
The Little Match Girl
Selma Lagerlof
A Christmas Guest
The Holy Night
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
Clement Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Henry van Dyke
The Other Wise Man
Beatrix Potter
The Tailor of Gloucester
Anton Chehov
Vanka
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Christmas by Injunction
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
A Chaparral Christmas Gift
An Unfinished Christmas Story
Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea
Markheim
Winter Time
Walter Scott
Christmas In The Olden Time
Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells
Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel
Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Thomas Hardy
The Oxen
William Butler Yeats
The Magi
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree
Charles Kingsley
Christmas Day
Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas
Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman
Willa Cather
The Burglar's Christmas
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christmas-Box
Washington Irving
Christmas
The Stage-Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas Dinner
George MacDonald
Christmas Day and Everyday
The Christmas Child
Christmas Meditation
A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Carol
My Uncle Peter
Mary's Lullaby
Christmas-Day
The Gifts of the Child Christ
That Holy Thing
Christmas
Christmas Song of the Old Children
King Cole
A Song for Christmas
James Joyce
The Dead
Saki
Bertie's Christmas Eve
William Shakespeare
Song of the Holly
The Gracious Time
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christmas; or, The Good Fairy
The First Christmas of New England
Betty's Bright Idea
Christmas in Poganuc
Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant

The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems. (100 Books)

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

Hard times

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 a échapper à son destin et à trouver sa place en ce monde ?

Les aventures d'Oliver Twist

Un soir de Noël, Scrooge, vieil homme d'affaires avare et cupide, a une hallucination en rentrant chez lui : il voit le fantôme de Jacob Marley, son associé décédé des années auparavant, dans le marteau de la porte. Sans s'inquiéter outre mesure de cette « sottise », Scrooge s'apprête à se mettre au lit lorsque la sonnette qui servait autrefois à appeler les domestiques se met à tinter. Or, cette sonnette aboutit à une pièce condamnée depuis bien longtemps, et personne n'a donc pu en tirer la ficelle... Voici le conte de Noël le plus connu de l'auteur, une belle histoire à lire au coin du feu, chaque année, juste avant Noël... 

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Cantique de Noël

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

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