Resultaten voor 'charles dickens'

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  1. A Christmas Carol
    1. Charles , Dickens

    A Christmas Carol

    A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's spooky but wonderfully Christmassy tale, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper, I could cry''Love love love this collection ''I must have all of them''Our beloved classics with sprayed edges too! They are absolutely STUNNING!''Bah! Humbug!'Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas, charity, kindness - or ghosts.But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unusual visitors who show him just how very mistaken he's been...This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

    € 24,00
  2. Dombey and Son
    1. Charles Dickens

    Dombey and Son

    € 44,50
  3. Dombey and Son
    1. Charles Dickens

    Dombey and Son

    € 55,50
  4. The Cricket on the Hearth
    1. Charles Dickens

    The Cricket on the Hearth

    € 21,95
  5. The Cricket on the Hearth
    1. Charles Dickens

    The Cricket on the Hearth

    € 35,95
  6. Dombey & figlio
    1. Charles , Dickens

    Dombey & figlio

    Pubblicato a puntate mensili tra ottobre 1846 e aprile 1848, Dombey & Figlio rappresenta una svolta nella produzione dickensiana: è il primo romanzo dell'autore concepito come un'opera unitaria e organicamente pianificata fin dall'inizio. Il romanzo esplora temi attuali: l'avidità, l'orgoglio, le relazioni disfunzionali, il ruolo delle donne nella società, la critica al capitalismo e il potere corrosivo del denaro. Attraverso una galleria di personaggi memorabili, Dickens costruisce un affresco sociale di straordinaria profondità che precorre i grandi capolavori della maturità come David Copperfield e Bleak House. Paul Dombey, ricco mercante londinese, desidera un erede maschio per perpetuare il nome della sua ditta. Quando nasce il tanto atteso figlio, la madre muore, lasciando anche Florence, la figlia che il padre disprezza. Il piccolo Paul, fragile e malaticcio, muore a sei anni distruggendo le speranze paterne. Determinato ad avere un nuovo erede, Dombey sposa l'indomita Edith Granger. Il matrimonio diventa una battaglia di orgoglio, complicata dalle macchinazioni del subdolo James Carker, direttore della ditta. In questo capolavoro di critica sociale, Dickens dipinge un affresco della società vittoriana, narrando la caduta e la redenzione di un uomo che deve imparare che l'amore vale più del denaro. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

    € 49,50
  7. Bleak House
    1. Charles Dickens

    Bleak House

    € 64,95
  8. A Christmas Carol
    1. Charles Dickens

    A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was sent to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833, when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed, and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame. Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

    € 28,50
  9. The Seven Poor Travellers
    1. Charles , Dickens

    The Seven Poor Travellers

    The Seven Poor Travellers (1854) is one of Charles Dickens's Christmas writings, first published in Household Words, and is shaped as a genial frame tale of hospitality, memory, and moral fellowship. Set around Richard Watts's charitable house in Rochester, where six impoverished wayfarers were traditionally lodged, the narrative makes Dickens himself the symbolic "seventh" traveller. Its style blends documentary curiosity, theatrical warmth, comic observation, and sentimental moral vision, placing it within the Victorian Christmas tradition that Dickens did so much to define. Dickens's fascination with Rochester, childhood recollection, and the visible institutions of charity all inform the piece. Having known insecurity, debt, and social precarity in his youth, he repeatedly returned to questions of poverty, dignity, and communal obligation. As editor, performer, and reform-minded novelist, Dickens used short seasonal fiction to join entertainment with ethical reflection, making public benevolence feel intimate and imaginatively compelling. This book is recommended to readers interested in Dickens beyond the major novels: concise, humane, and atmospheric, it offers a revealing example of his Christmas art, his social conscience, and his enduring belief in storytelling as an act of fellowship.

    € 7,10
  10. Bleak House
    1. Charles Dickens

    Bleak House

    Illustrated Edition
    € 32,95
  11. The Cricket on the Hearth
    1. Charles Dickens
    2. Richard Doyle
    3. Edwin Henry Landseer

    The Cricket on the Hearth

    € 16,50
  12. The Cricket on the Hearth
    1. Charles Dickens
    2. George Alfred Williams

    The Cricket on the Hearth

    € 16,50