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Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick, Vol. II, est un livre classique et rare, qui a été considéré comme important tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanité, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, chez Alpha Editions, nous avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. . Tout ce livre a été reformaté, retapé et repensé. Ces livres ne sont pas constitués de copies numérisées de leur ¿uvre originale et leur texte est donc clair et lisible. Ce livre remarquable s'inscrit dans les genres de Language and Literatures, English literature

Aventures de Monsieur Pickwick, Vol. I, est un livre classique et rare, qui a été considéré comme important tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanité, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, chez Alpha Editions, nous avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. . Tout ce livre a été reformaté, retapé et repensé. Ces livres ne sont pas constitués de copies numérisées de leur ¿uvre originale et leur texte est donc clair et lisible. Ce livre remarquable s'inscrit dans les genres de Language and Literatures, English literature

Widely considered as one of Dickens most superb and complete novels, "Bleak House" contains a more vastly complex and engaging array of characters and sub-plots than any of Dickens's novels. As is commonplace in his works, Dickens satirically criticizes the social inequities of his time turning his attacks in this instance to the judicial system of 19th century England. At the center of the novel is the story of John Jarndyce who is tied up in a long-running litigation concerning an estate to which his wards Richard Carstone and Ada Clare are the beneficiaries. A series of events take the vast array of comic and tragic characters from the slums of London to the mansions of noblemen, involving some in treachery and others in discovery. Dickens blends the perfect balance of comedy and social satire in a story that contains mystery, tragedy, murder, redemption, and enduring love. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

About the year 1834, when the earliest of the Sketches by Boz were appearing in print, a young composer named John Hullah set to music a portion of an opera calledThe Gondolier, which he thought might prove successful on the stage. Twelve months later Hullah became acquainted with Charles Dickens, whose name was then unknown to those outside his own immediate circle, and it occurred to him that he and ¿Boz¿ might combine their forces by converting The Gondolier into a popular play. Dickens, who always entertained a passion for the theatre, entered into the project at once, and informed Hullah that he had a little unpublished story by him which he thought would dramatise well¿even better than The Gondolier notion; confessing that he would rather deal with familiar English scenes than with the unfamiliar Venetian environment of the play favoured by Hullah. The title of The Gondolier was consequently abandoned, and a novel subject found and put forward as The Village Coquettes, a comic opera of which songs, duets, and concerted pieces were to form constituent parts. Dickens, of course, became responsible for the libretto and Hullah for the music; and when completed the little play was offered to, and accepted by, Braham, the lessee of the St. James¿s Theatre, who expressed an earnest desire to be the first to introduce ¿Boz¿ to the public as a dramatic writer. A favourite comedian of that day, John Pritt Harley, after reading the words of the opera prior to its representation, declared it was ¿a sure card,¿ and felt so confident of its success that he offered to wager ten pounds that it would run fifty nights!¿an assurance which at once decided Braham to produce it.

One of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip's first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham's mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist's bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.This edition includes Dickens's original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.

In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, orphaned Pip navigates through the complexities of Victorian society, propelled by his dreams of wealth andstatus. With memorable characters, intricate plot twists, and themes of ambition and redemption, this timeless classic explores the power of identity,love and the pursuit of one's dreams.

Dickens set his final full-scale masterpiece in 1860s London, creating dozens of memorable characters. All the themes that engaged him as a mature writer are featured here: love and hate, wealth and poverty, honesty and duplicity, and the formation and reformation of identity.

Published in 1841 as part of MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, the journal founded by Dickens, BARNABY RUDGE is the earlier of Dickens's two historical novels(the other being A TALE OF TWO CITIES).It is set in the period of the Gordon anti-popery riotof 1780 and contains powerful evocations of mob violence, culminating in the sackof Newgate.The main story is a romantic one about the troubled love affair of Emma Haredale, whose father has been mysteriously murdered, and Edward Chester, sonof Sir John Chester, a villain who helps to instigate the

'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.

"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country. "Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s.

Dombey has lost everything and lives in solitude. However, Florence, having married Walter, who has survived his shipwreck, comes back to her father and finds her way to his heart.

Born and bred in Marshalsea debtors' prison, Little Dorrit is her father's constant helpmate and a prisoner to his devotion. As she grows into a woman, she longs to escape from this bond. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it.

The PICKWICK PAPERS is a remarkable story about a man (Pickwick) who is dealt an injustice with the law.

A tale of entangled loves and thwarted desires, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD(1870) has at its heart an ill-starred engagement and a suspected murder, the victim of which has disappeared.Dickens's last novel is the natural culmination of his life's work.It is populated by memorable characters such as the fatuous Mr Sapsea and the bullying ' philanthropist'Mr Honeythunder, and it exhibits Dickens's dazzling talent for atmosphere and social observation.Various attempts have been madeby authors such as Leon Garfield(1980) and C.Forsyte(1980) to resolve the mystery at the heart of this, Dickens's intriguing unfinished masterpi

The longest of Dickens novels this book is record of heroes and villains coloured with his unique imaginative touch and proccupation for the macarbe.

The classic Dickens tale of Nell Trent and her grandfather, forced into debt andthen having to flee to the country where they face great hardships. Tragically, both Nell and her grandfather have died before his brother traces them.

Oliver Twist is an orphan who was born in a workhouse. After an unhappy apprenticeship, Oliver runs away to London where he falls in with thieves, headed by Fagin. He is rescued by Mr Brownlow but the gang kidnap him back. Oliver discovers the identity of his parents and the gang is exposed.

The spectre of the French Revolution--the rumbling of the death carts, thethud of the guillotine, the ferocious mobs and the storming of the Bastille--isvividly portrayed in this lavish BBC production, complete with a full cast andstirring music. Dickens' epic tale is a listening experience to betreasured.

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human love.