Charles John Huffam Dickens, ne a Landport, pres de Portsmouth, dans le Hampshire, le 7 fevrier 1812 et mort a Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, le 9 juin 1870 (a 58 ans), est considere comme le plus grand romancier de l'epoque victorienne. Des ses premiers ecrits, il est devenu immensement celebre, sa popularite ne cessant de croitre au fil de ses publications."

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the...

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the...

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the...

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the...

Le theme principal de Dombey et Fils concerne l'orgueil demesure d'un pere que suit, apres bien de tragiques turbulences, sa redemption. Les trois-cents premieres pages concernent essentiellement les relations existant entre ce pere et son fils, le Petit Paul, qui se languit et meurt, et l'amour exclusif que se portent Paul et sa s ur Florence que Mr Dombey neglige sans retenue. Le reste du roman concerne plutot la relation pere-fille que le malheur finit par rapprocher, Mr Dombey, en effet, perdant de sa superbe sous les coups du sort et cedant enfin a l'affection restee sans faille de...

Le theme principal de Dombey et Fils concerne l'orgueil demesure d'un pere que suit, apres bien de tragiques turbulences, sa redemption. Les trois-cents premieres pages concernent essentiellement les relations existant entre ce pere et son fils, le Petit Paul, qui se languit et meurt, et l'amour exclusif que se portent Paul et sa s ur Florence que Mr Dombey neglige sans retenue. Le reste du roman concerne plutot la relation pere-fille que le malheur finit par rapprocher, Mr Dombey, en effet, perdant de sa superbe sous les coups du sort et cedant enfin a l'affection restee sans faille de...

Le theme principal de Dombey et Fils concerne l'orgueil demesure d'un pere que suit, apres bien de tragiques turbulences, sa redemption. Les trois-cents premieres pages concernent essentiellement les relations existant entre ce pere et son fils, le Petit Paul, qui se languit et meurt, et l'amour exclusif que se portent Paul et sa soeur Florence que Mr Dombey neglige sans retenue. Le reste du roman concerne plutot la relation pere-fille que le malheur finit par rapprocher, Mr Dombey, en effet, perdant de sa superbe sous les coups du sort et cedant enfin a l'affection restee sans faille de...

Una autoestopista palida y cadaverica se aparece a los conductores en una carretera perdida, les salva la vida pero los vuelve locos. Un buque fantasma se dedidca a atemorizar a los pescadores de los bancos de atun haciendo hervir los mares entre la niebla e impidiendoles faenar. Un brutal asesinato, supuestamente cometido en un ritual fantasmagorico, esconde una oscura historia de contrabandistas. Tres historias de falsos espectros, de animas y aparecidos, en las que el detective Carvalho debera discernir entre lo racional y lo sobrenatural.