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Recordándonos a los estudiantes del buscón de Quevedo, aunque sea al otro lado del mar, Charles Dickens en esta obra corta, refleja perfectamente cómo funcionaban los colegios ingleses de principios del siglo XIX y el hambre y penurias por las que los alumnos tenían que pasar, mientras aprendían latinajos. Es un relato que estamos seguros a todos entretendrá.

Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la víspera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacaño que es una de las más acabadas representaciones del avaro en la historia de la literatura y otro de los inolvidables personajes de la amplia galería de Dickens.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.

Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman - Charles Darnay - falsely accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to another man in the courtroom, the dissolute lawyer's clerk Sydney Carton. It is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than once.

Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens: The Ultimate Collection brings together the major works of fiction from three of the greatest writers of the 1800s. In this collection you'll hear Jonathan Keeble and David Rintoul expertly narrating the grand epics of The Brothers Karamazov and War & Peace, Stephen Fry narrating Great Expectations, Scrooge's ghostly journey narrated by Jason Isaacs, and other award-winning narrators bringing Tolstoy and Dickens' most beloved stories to life.

Charles Darnay is an exiled French soldier. Sydney Carter, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer. In Dickens’ gripping, vivid historical drama the lives of these two men become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner. The lives of Charles and Sydney are drawn from the calm, peaceful roads of London to the bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. Soon they fall under the shadow of La Guillotine…

Des voyageurs rencontrent l'ermite Tom Tiddler et lui racontent... C'est ainsi que nous découvrons la réconcilation d'un père d'avec son fils, l'évasion de deux forçats, le destin d'un enfant né sur un navire le même jour qu'un autre, la poursuite à travers l'Amérique d'un voleur de portefeuille.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Celebrate the magic and warmth of the holiday season with The Essential Christmas Collection, a curated anthology of timeless stories that capture the spirit of Christmas. From classic tales of generosity and joy to heartfelt moments of reflection, this collection will transport you to a world...

Una novela historica de la revolucion. Carlos Dickens, el gran escritor ingles incursiono muy poco en la novela historica, que tan de boga estuvo a mediados del siglo XIX.

La obra maestra de Dickens. El mismo Dickens consideraba a David Copperfield no solo su obra preferida, sino quiza la mejor de todas las que habia escrito. Quiza y en parte, se deba a que muchos consideran que esta es una obra autobiografica, aunque con muchos elementos de fantasia mezclados en la narracion, en la cual a trozos de aventura real, siguen pedazos conmovedores y escenas domesticas descritas con esa mano maestra del gran escritor ingles.

Grandi speranze è considerato uno dei più grandi e più sofisticati romanzi di Dickens; ebbe inoltre più di 250 adattamenti sul palcoscenico e sullo schermo. Fu pubblicato a puntate fra il 1860 e il 1861, ed è come altri romanzi di Dickens la storia di un percorso di crescita morale di un ragazzo che viene seguito, nel racconto, dall'eta di 7 anni all'età di 35 anni.

A small collection of short ghost stories, penned by Charles Dickens, narrated here by Michael Ward. "The Haunted House" When the narrator witnesses a dreary house in rural England, he is soon told the place is deeply haunted. But is it really? "The Trial for Murder" Haunted by visions of a...

Oliver Twist es una de las grandes obras del siglo XIX, del escritor inglés Charles Dickens, quien narra con lujo de detalle y mucha ternura las penurias que padece el pequeño protagonista llamado Oliver Twist. Este conmovedor personaje, un huérfano que crece en las calles, se encuentra a una pandilla comandada por individuos sin escrúpulos que tratan de convertirlo en un ladronzuelo. A pesar de ello, Oliver conoce también a personas buenas y honestas que le tienden la mano.

Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.

This Audible Exclusive production revisits Charles Dickens’ tragi-comic novel Little Dorrit. Written during the Crimean War, it a story of fortunes won and lost and a masterly portrayal of the failings of Victorian Society, with the ever-present spectre of law enforcement and imprisonment looming over a fearful population. Divided into two parts, Book One: Poverty and Book Two: Riches, Little Dorrit satirises the debtors prisons and the detrimental effect of enforcing a British class system.

David Copperfield, una historia llena de épica y exuberancia, es una de las obras más importantes de Charles Dickens y uno de los libros más célebres de la literatura universal. Cuenta la historia de David Copperfied y de los villanos, salvadores y excéntricos que se cruzan por su camino, personajes como Mr. Murdstone, el valiente Peggotty, la formidable Betsey Trotwood, el miserable Micawber y la odiosa Uriah Heep.

La novela responsable de incontables adaptaciones a la pantalla grande, entre ellas el exitoso y galardonado musical Oliver!, aventúrate a escuchar de las aventuras del niño titular. Oliver Twist es la historia de un niño huérfano, nacido a las terribles injusticias y crueldades de la Inglaterra Victoriana. Pasará por un orfanato, un enterrador y una banda de criminales, enfrentando dificultades en cada paso. Considerada por muchos como la primera novela social, debido a su honesta y poco romantizada descripción del lado más oscuro de la sociedad Victoriana, este relato te tendrá escuchando a

Esta novela clásica de Charles Dickens ha sido adaptada a la pantalla grande y reversionada muchas veces. Hoy se presenta en audiolibro por primera vez en esta traducción e interpretada por Nacho Casas. Pip, un niño huérfano de 6 años, tiene un terrorífico encuentro con un preso evadido...

Audible presents an original dramatisation of Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son, first published as Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. A literary masterpiece in which Dickens' gift for vivid characterisation is at its best, this is the story of a powerful man whose inability to appreciate those around him leads to his lonely demise and, later, his possible redemption.