Historia de dos ciudades es una de las novelas del escritor britanico Charles Dickens, publicada en 1859. Esta novela es particularmente distinta a las demas que escribio, las cuales se basan en su mayoria en historias protagonizadas por ninos o adolescentes y muestran una intencion de reprimenda o denuncia de la sociedad britanica de la epoca. En esta novela historica se narra la vida en el siglo XVIII, en la epoca de la Revolucion francesa. Al mismo tiempo la historia se desarrolla en dos paises: Inglaterra y Francia, y en las ciudades de Londres y Paris, respectivamente en la epoca de los...

Though this novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on Drood's uncle, precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Drood's fiancee, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless, who comes from Ceylon with his twin sister, Helena. Landless and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Drood later disappears under mysterious circumstances. The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly disguised Rochester. Mr Crisparkle, for example, lives in a clergy house in Minor Canon...

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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens'...

There are readers and there a those of us who read Dickens. One of the greatest Novels ever written by a master wordsmith in full flight. Written in six short weeks in 1848, since published in December of that year this timeless classic has never gone out of print. Now available in it's original form with illustrations by Thomas Leech re-coloured and typeset as the author wished it to be.

In an orphanage in Victorian England, Oliver Twist survives among his companions in misfortune. fed poorly operated, it is placed in a funeral parlor where, again, he only knows deprivation and abuse. Oliver endures all, until a provocation too pushes him to flee to London. Exhausted, hungry, it is collected by a gang of young thieves who work for the old Fagin. Between Dodger, Bill, Nancy and the other, Oliver discovers a cruel world where only count cunning and strength. Arrested for a robbery he did not commit the person of Mr. Brownlow, Oliver does not betray his band and draws the...

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens' third novel. The novel centers on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens' third published novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with The Pickwick Papers. The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. The style is...

Dombey and Son, first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and 1848, originally carried the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne but travelled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing it.- Excerpted from Dombey and Son

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea. Most of Dickens' other critiques in this particular novel are about other issues with regards to the social safety net: industry, and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of...