Charles Dickens

Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no market value. In his son he sees the future of his firm and the continuation of his name, while he neglects his affectionate daughter, until he...

Dickens is famous for his moralising and the entreaties within his fiction to help the poor, and characters such as the Cratchit family, or little Joe in Bleak House have become iconic figures in our recollections of the nineteenth century's working class struggles. This collection includes articles such as 'A Poor man and his beer' and 'Walk in...

In 18th-century France. the rich seem to have everything they could ever want. while the poor barely keep from starving. Injustice is commonplace. and discontent and revolution are brewing ... The hero of this classie tale by Charles Dickens is a young French nobleman known as Charles Darnay. Sickened by the wrongs he sees. he renounces his ...

Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet...

"Charles Dickens: Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia. A Christmas Carol. Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Opowiadanie Karola Dickensa jest moralitetem w stylu wiktoriańskim. Pokazuje głębokie doświadczenie i przemianę skąpca Ebenezera Scrooge’a, zachodzącą w czasie nocy wigilijnej. Jest on...

"Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition Dawid rodzi się po śmierci ojca. Matka ponownie wychodzi za mąż, ojczym zaś pozbywa się Dawida z domu. W szkole z internatem jest prześladowany i maltretowany przez nauczyciela. Nie jest to jednak koniec jego cierpień, wkrótce bowiem umiera mu też...