Charles Dickens: Leben und Abenteuer des Martin Chuzzlewit
Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch
Berliner Ausgabe, 2017
Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Erstdruck in Fortsetzungen zwischen Dezember 1842 und Juli 1844; als Buch 1844. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Gustav Meyrink, Munchen, Langen, 1912.
Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger
Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion
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Charles Dickens: Leben und Abenteuer des Martin Chuzzlewit
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues: the dark opium dens of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled...
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to ...
Nicholas Nickleby is newly employed as a teacher at Dotheboys' Hall in Yorkshire thanks to his manipulative and avaricious uncle Ralph, a businessman. There he witnesses the cruel treatment of boys at the hands of despotic headmaster Wackford Squeers and his wife. In coming to the defence of one boy, Smike, Nicholas assaults Squeers. Thinking he has killed him, he escapes with Smike to London and on to Portsmouth where the pair join the Crummles Theatre Company. Ralph uses Nicholas's sister Kate as bait further to ensnare a young and wealthy lord who is already in his debt. Learning...
Nicholas Nickleby is newly employed as a teacher at Dotheboys' Hall in Yorkshire thanks to his manipulative and avaricious uncle Ralph, a businessm...
