Charles Dickens

Adaptada a la pantalla grande incontables veces, protagonizada por actores de renombre como Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow y Anthony Hopkins, entre otros, Grandes Esperanzas es una de las últimas novelas de Charles Dickens y es un clásico de la literatura...

‘It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature.’ Dickens’s first novel, The Pickwick Papers was a huge success at the time of publication, and helped launch Dickens as the literary...

Narra la historia de John Peerybingle, un cartero bondadoso, y su esposa Dot, cuyo hogar está protegido por un grillo mágico. La trama incluye malentendidos, la sospecha de infidelidad, y la redención del avaro Tackleton, culminando en la reconciliación y el regreso de un hijo perdido.

A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it...

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and...

No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends. Dickens wrote all the stories presented here...

Samuel Pickwick, founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club, engages three fellow members to accompany him on a journey. By coach they’ll travel to the outreaches of London to explore, observe, and report back on the quaint wonders of the English countryside. What transpires is a picaresque...

David Copperfield erzählt im Rückblick seine Lebensgeschichte von der Kindheit an bis zum erfolgreichen Schriftsteller mit Familie. Die vier Etappen sind: Kindheit, Ausbildung, Beruf und Ehe mit Dora, Neuanfang mit Agnes. Damit verbunden sind mehrere teilweise tragische ...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.

Oliver Twist doesn't ask for much—just a little more. When a hungry orphan speaks up, he's hurled from the workhouse into London's maze of alleys, where charm comes cheap and danger wears a friendly grin.

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1907, the Old Time English volume of The Lock and Key Library features ten classic mysteries and ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Robert Maturin, Laurence Sterne, and William...

A Christmas classic written by Charlies Dickens. Narrated by Ian Pringle. This production includes original music by UK-based folk duo, Intarsia. A festive feast for your ears, heart, and mind...

A Victorian family gathers round the hearth, and one by one they tell each other their Winter's tales. Charles Dickens begins 'the round of stories they were to relate, as they sat in a goodly circle by the Christmas fire', and then hands over to Elizabeth Gaskell, Samuel Sidney and other...

The Seven Poor Travellers takes place on Christmas Eve in Rochester at the charity hospice founded in 1579 by Richard Watts - an actual hospice that Dickens knew well from his childhood days. According to Watts' will, his hospice was to supply six poor travelers (providing they were not rogues...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” When Doctor Alexandre Manette is released after eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille, his devoted daughter Lucie hopes to restore peace to their shattered family. But as political violence spreads across Paris and the...

Penguin Classics presents Hard Times, Charles Dickens's stark exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution, now adapted for downloadable audiobook. Read by the actor Michael Pennington. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model...

Oliver Twist ist einer der erfolgreichsten Romane von Charles Dickens. Das arme Waisenkind Oliver, das in die Fänge finsterer Gestalten gerät, zum Schluss aber in einer guten Familie aufwachsen kann, ist Gegenstand vieler Filme geworden. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses...

Eleven-year-old actor Eden Giuliano presents a brand new line of exciting children’s stories from Icon! A Christmas Carol is a novella by the great Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of...

Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, the orphaned Oliver escapes and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart, and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful...

A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day, to appeal to the die-hard capitalists to take care of the downtrodden masses...