Det är 200 år sedan ett av världslitteraturens största namn, Charles Dickens, föddes. Dickens är läst över hela världen. I den här boken presenterar litteraturhistorikern Britt Dahlström ett generöst urval med exempel ur Dickens stora produktion. En del är helt nytt för en svensk publ[...]
Vardagsord (Household Words) var Charles Dickens egen veckotidning som utgavs från 1850 till 1859. Han skrev inte själv varje ord, men bestämde tidningens inriktning, valde texterna och redigerade dem. De medverkande skribenterna förblev anonyma.
Vardagsord publicerades i det vikt[...]
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This title provides an introduction by Nick Hornby. John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon's body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the[...]
A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens' "Pictures from Italy" is edited with notes and an introduction by and notes by Kate Flint. In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing t[...]
Charles Dickens' powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, "Martin Chuzzlewit" is edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham in "Penguin Classics". The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and names[...]
The classic coming-of-age story presents David Copperfield, who suffers the wrath of his stepfather, the abusive Mr. Mudstone, and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood, and falls deeply in love with child-like Dora, as he struggles to es[...]
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens. "Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted w[...]
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens. '"I may grow rich!" repeated Nicholas, with a mournful smile, "ay, and I may grow old. But rich or poor, or old or young, we shall ever be the same to each other, and in that our comfort lies"'. The work of a yo[...]
'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nigh[...]
Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is [...]
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol ha[...]
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and fal[...]
Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing he[...]
Reprinting the original 1850 text, this work also includes Dickens' plans for serialization in "All the Year Round". It includes excerpts from Dickens' letters which should lead to an understanding of the genesis of the novel, as well as Phiz's line drawings. The background section includes an autob[...]
Dicken's most beloved story, "A Christmas Carol," is as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe and carolers. This heartwarming tale continues to stir in us the same feelings of repentance, forgiveness, and love that transformed Ebenezer Scrooge.[...]
21 captivating scenes include a terrified Scrooge confronted by Marley's ghost and Christmas dinner with the Cratchits, accompanied by Dickens's own specially abridged text.
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Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesnât like people. He really doesnât like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he chang[...]
This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the[...]
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As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors a[...]