Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.

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Bleak House

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

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The Chimes

Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year's Eve, summoned to the church tower by a mysterious chiming, Trotty witnesses his own death, and is taken on a ghostly journey that will force him to reassess his conviction. One of Dickens' 'Christmas stories', The Chimes is charming and surprising manifesto for empathy for our fellow man.

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2. Natasza Tardio

De bezeten man

Charles Dickens, bekend van romans als Oliver Twist en Grote Verwachtingen, is een van de meest geliefde Engelse schrijvers van de negentiende eeuw. Ook schreef hij betoverende korte verhalen waarvan er in deze bundel drie zijn opgenomen. Naast de duivelse novelle De bezeten man zijn dat Het bezoek aan meneer Testator en het spookverhaal De advocaat en de geest. In de door Natasza Tardio gemaakte hertaling blijven Dickens’ meesterlijke maatschappelijke commentaar en levendig uitgewerkte personages behouden, terwijl de taal naadloos aansluit bij lezers van nu. Geheel in de geest van Dickens schreef Tardio voor deze bundel zelf een nieuw duister verhaal: Schaduwspel.

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2. Thomas de Quincey
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Stories of Intellect (Cram Edition)

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A Christmas Carol and the Chimes by Charles Dickens - Faux Leather with Gold Foil, Ribbon Bookmark & Illustrations Deluxe Classic Literature Holiday Gift