Charles Dickens
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"Oliver Twist", Charles Dicken's second novel, is the classic story of the struggles of a young orphan in 19th century England. An early social novel, Dickens draws upon the political issues of child labor and the struggles of the poor. Originally serialized in «Bentley's Miscellany» between February 1837 and April 1839, «Oliver Twist» is one of Dickens early classics.
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serialized form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serialized form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serialized form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they...
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La vida del joven Pip, un pequeño huérfano que vive bajo el cuidado de su hermana, la señora Joe, está a apunto de cambiar gracias a un encuentro inesperado durante una visita a la tumba de sus padres. Inmediatamente después de esto, el señor Joe consigue trabajo en una mansión semi abandonada, dirigida por la señora Havisham, una viuda excéntrica que aún usa su vestido de novia. Ahí conoce a la bella, pero sumamente fría, Estella, de quien se enamora perdidamente. Sin saberlo, van sucediendo...
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Ein großer Gesellschaftsroman des 19. Jahrhunderts: Das Waisen- und Findelkind Oliver Twist flieht aus einem kleinstädtischen Armenhaus nach London und gerät in die Klauen einer Diebesbande. Als bei einem Diebstahl der unschuldige Oliver von der Polizei erwischt wird, hat er zunächst großes Glück und wird von dem Opfer herzlich aufgenommen. Doch bis zum ersehnten Happy End muss er noch Einiges durchleben…-
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A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares...
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"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a «fanatic of the demonstrable fact,» who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality.Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a «fanatic of the demonstrable fact,» who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality.Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |