Philip, dit Pip, a grandi dans un village du Kent, sous la férule de sa mégère de sœur et de son beau-frère, un forgeron au grand cœur.Devenu garçon de compagnie d’une vieille excentrique, Pip s’éprend de sa fille adoptive, la belle et froide Estella. Une passion qui éveille en lui une ardente ambition. Lorsqu’il apprend que l’attend un mystérieux héritage, le jeune homme fuit sa famille pour Londres, dans l’espoir d’y devenir un gentleman…Plein d’humour et de rebondissements, l’avant-dernier roman de Dickens (1861) est le récit truculent d’une ascension sociale. Les « grandes espérances » de Pip ne sont pas tant les aspirations de l’Angleterre victorienne au confort et à la respectabilité que les puissances du rêve et le désir du bonheur.

De grandes espérances

"Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten" (Originaltitel: "A Tale of Two Cities") ist ein historischer Roman von Charles Dickens. Geschrieben 1859, ist das Buch mit über 200 Millionen verkauften Ausgaben das meistgedruckte original englischsprachige Buch aller Zeiten und gehört zu den berühmtesten Werken der Weltliteratur.

Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten

David Copperfield mène une vie heureuse auprès de sa jeune mère, qui est veuve, et de l'étrange Mme Peggotty.

Mais cette existence est interrompue par le mariage de sa mère avec M. Murdstone, homme cruel qui va causer la mort de son épouse.

David est alors envoyé à l'école, où il subit les mauvaise traitements du maître Creakle, puis au magasin de Murdstone et Grinby, où on lui fait accomplir les besognes les plus serviles.

Il s'enfuit de Londres, gagne Douvres à pied et se réfugie chez sa tante Betsy Trotwood. C'est une nouvelle vie qui commence, empreinte d'événements dramatiques et spectaculaire, qui mènera David vers le bonheur et la gloire littéraire.

David Copperfield est le roman que préférait Charles Dickens. Sans doute de par son caracttère auto-biographique.

C'est aussi son chef-d'oeuvre.

David Copperfield

"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)

I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton), perched among the boughs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping; there were jolly, broad-faced little men, much more agreeable in appearance than many real men-and no wonder, for their heads took off, and showed them to be full of sugar-plums; there were fiddles and drums; there were tambourines, books, work-boxes, paint-boxes, sweetmeat-boxes, peep-show boxes, and all kinds of boxes; there were trinkets for the elder girls, far brighter than any grown-up gold and jewels; there were baskets and pincushions in all devices; there were guns, swords, and banners; there were witches standing in enchanted rings of pasteboard, to tell fortunes; there were teetotums, humming-tops, needle-cases, pen-wipers, smelling-bottles, conversation-cards, bouquet-holders; real fruit, made artificially dazzling with gold leaf; imitation apples, pears, and walnuts, crammed with surprises; in short, as a pretty child, before me, delightedly whispered to another pretty child, her bosom friend, "There was everything, and more." This motley collection of odd objects, clustering on the tree like magic fruit, and flashing back the bright looks directed towards it from every side-some of the diamond-eyes admiring it were hardly on a level with the table, and a few were languishing in timid wonder on the bosoms of pretty mothers, aunts, and nurses-made a lively realisation of the fancies of childhood; and set me thinking how all the trees that grow and all the things that come into existence on the earth, have their wild adornments at that well-remembered time.

Some Christmas Stories

Après avoir fait connaissance des frères Cheeryble et de leur commis, les temps changent pour Nicolas, et son nouvel emploi lui procure toute satisfaction. Sa soeur ainsi que sa mère sont mises à l'abri des sombres projets de l'oncle Ralph, lequel rompt tout lien avec sa famille et n'a de cesse de se venger de l'impétueux jeune homme. Il n'hésitera pas, pour ce faire, à s'associer aux plus douteux membres de la société londonienne. Des secrets seront révélés et des intrigues ourdies par de sombres canailles, sans dérouter Nicolas, désormais amoureux d'une belle inconnue. Il lui faudra toute sa détermination et l'aide précieuse de ses amis pour traverser les lourdes épreuves qui l'attendent et dont le pauvre Smike sera la bien innocente victime. 

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Vie et aventures de Nicolas Nickleby - Tome II

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.

Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society.

Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. Set in London and Paris, his 1859 novel, "A Tale of Two Cities", is the best selling novel of all time. 

This collection contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.

- The Pickwick Papers

- Oliver Twist

- Nicholas Nickleby

- The Old Curiosity Shop

- Barnaby Rudge

- Martin Chuzzlewit

- Dombey and Son

- David Copperfield

- Bleak House

- Hard Times

- Little Dorrit

- A Tale of Two Cities

- Great Expectations

- Our Mutual Friend

- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

Oliver Twist n'a pas la vie facile: sa mère étant décédée en le mettant au monde, le tout jeune Oliver se retrouve orphelin et est placé sous la tutelle de Mme Mann. Celle -ci ne lui offre cependant pas une enfance joyeuse et dénuée de soucis: la faim, le froid et les coups font partie du quotidien. À 9 ans, Oliver est retiré de l'établissement de Mme Mann: quel avenir lui est réservé?

Charles Dickens vécut de 1812 à 1870 en Angleterre et est considéré comme le plus grand écrivain anglais de son siècle. Son enfance fut marquée par le travail au noir dans une usine et l'incarcération de son père. Ayant interrompu son parcours scolaire, c'est à ses propres efforts qu'il dut une grande partie de ses connaissances. Dans ses oeuvres, il condamne la misère humaine en décrivant avec humour la vie quotidienne.

Oliver Twist

"Der Raritätenladen" ist ein 1840 veröffentlichter Kriminalroman von Charles Dickens. Der Originaltitel lautet "The Old Curiosity Shop".

Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (als Pseudonym auch "Boz"; * 7. Februar 1812 in Landport bei Portsmouth, England; ? 9. Juni 1870 auf Gad's Hill Place bei Rochester, England) war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken gehören "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", "Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten", "Große Erwartungen" sowie "Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte".

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