Charles Dickens

Połączenie powieści obyczajowej, satyry, farsy i romansu łotrzykowskiego. Utwór opisuje podróż po Anglii dobrodusznego pana Pickwicka, twórcy nowej teorii skakania żab, i jego groteskowych przyjaciół. Angielski humor manifestuje się w powieści zarówno w pełnych komizmu scenkach rodzajowych, jak i w charakterystykach występujących postaci....

This is an ideal Christmas present, to give or receive. It includes Dickens`s five most popular Christmas tales: The Chimes, The Haunted Man, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and `the greatest little book in the world`, A Christmas Carol. The texts are taken from the 1868 Charles Dickens Edition, corrected by the author himself....

?Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.? Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens?s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters ? the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the...

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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....