Presents a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. The author died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.

The mystery of Edwin Drood

Dickens's historical novel of the French Revolution, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

A tale of two cities

"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)

Immerse yourself in Victorian times with these classic stories and timeless characters from Charles Dickens. The Selected Novels of Charles Dickens includes The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. 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.

Selected Novels Of Charles Dickens - David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

"Il lui répugnait beaucoup d'avoir la préséance sur tant de membres honorables de la famille, en commençant la première des histoires qu'ils allaient raconter chacun à leur tour, assis en demi-cercle auprès du feu de Noël." De beaux contes, sous forme de "l'histoire de" : L'histoire du parent pauvre, L'histoire de l'enfant, L'histoire de quelqu'un ou La légende des deux rivières, L'histoire de la vieille Marie bonne d'enfant, L'histoire de l'hôte, L'histoire du grand-père, L'histoire de la femme de journée, L'histoire de l'écolier sourd, L'histoire de l'invité, L'histoire de la mère, Le retour de l'émigrant ou Noël après quinze ans d'absence...

Les conteurs à la ronde

Un conte de deux villes est le seul roman historique, au sens plein du terme, que Dickens ait jamais écrit. La Révolution française, saisie dans ses motivations profondes et suivie dans son déchaînement populaire, est le sujet même de l'ouvrage, avec une intrigue admirablement construite. L'histoire se passe à Londres et à Paris, où Dickens s'était beaucoup promené, en particulier dans le quartier de la Bastille, avant d'écrire ce roman superbe et sanglant sur la tourmente révolutionnaire.

Un conte de deux villes

Après la succession dans le temps des épreuves sans bilan, des crises sans leçon, des tentatives sans accomplissement, il nous apparaît que nous autres ne pouvons pas grand chose aujourd'hui pour contrer les flots obscurs de l'époque, les armées vouées à la destruction du monde, les illusions des masses et de leurs élites aliénées, mais que, par contre, nous pouvons créer, de façon artisanale, au coeur-même de la confusion, les points d'ancrage d'une pensée future ; une pensée qui sera finalement produite par l'une ou l'autre des générations d'Algériens qui se succéderont à l'avenir. Une pensée utile à la société algérienne parce qu'elle lui permettra de sortir du doute et du désarroi, de combattre les archaïsmes, l'ignorance et l'aliénation, de remettre en question la fatalité de la domination, d'exercer sa volonté et de maîtriser son destin. Une pensée nécessaire parce que sans elle, sans l'inspiration et le sens qu'elle donne aux actions et aux comportements, la société ne peut qu'errer, prolonger son errance, répéter ses erreurs, sans que le temps qui passe de génération en génération n'y puisse rien. Car l'histoire n'avance que par la connaissance au profit exclusif de ceux qui en ont la maîtrise. Ce n'est qu'avec la connaissance que l'on peut inventer et produire les moyens de survivre, de vivre, de créer, de lutter, de refuser le sort assigné aux faibles et aux dominés.

Olivier Twist

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.

Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

The mystery of Edwin Drood

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