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Canción de Navidad de Charles Dickens, no solo es un clásico de la literatura navideña, sino también una poderosa lección de autoayuda y transformación personal. La historia sigue a Ebenezer Scrooge, un hombre amargado, avaro y solitario, cuya vida cambia radicalmente tras ser visitado por cuatro espíritus: su antiguo socio Marley y los fantasmas de la Navidad pasada, presente y futura.

The Greats Abridged: Great Expectations brings Charles Dickens' iconic coming-of-age tale to life in a concise, compelling format ideal for modern listeners. This expertly abridged version preserves the heart and drama of Pip’s journey—from humble beginnings as an orphaned blacksmith’s apprentice to the glittering illusions of gentlemanly life in London.

A Tale of Two Cities sweeps listeners into the turmoil of the French Revolution, capturing both the grandeur and the horror of the era. Set between the contrasting cities of London and Paris, this historical masterpiece follows the lives of Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who renounces his title, and Sydney Carton, a dissolute English barrister whose redemption lies in a profound act of sacrifice.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree.

Dickens’s first novel, The Pickwick Papers was a huge success at the time of publication, and helped launch Dickens as the literary giant he is today. Originally serialised between 1836 and 1837, this comic and episodic tale follows the adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his companions. Together, they form the Pickwick Club, which aimed to gather scientific knowledge, investigating the curious customs of others and making general observations of their travels.

Based on a trip taken just short of his thirtieth birthday, American Notes for General Circulation is a dazzling travelogue of Charles Dickens’s adventures in North America in 1842. Travelling from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, St. Louis, Quebec and more, Dickens writes candidly about his time in America.

Famed for being Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend is a sophisticated social analysis and damning satire of wealth, and the greed and corruption it can bring. First published between 1864 and 1865, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a large fortune left by John Harmon Sr., owner of a huge estate. Once John passes, his wealth is left to his son, but only under one condition: that he marries Miss Bella Wilfer, a shallow young woman preoccupied with money.

Nicholas Nickleby, a young man with a comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire, suddenly finds his life upturned when his father passes away after losing all his money in a poor investment. In the wake of his death, Nicholas, his mother and younger sister are forced to travel to London to seek refuge from their only living relative, but to no avail: Uncle Ralph despises Nicholas at first sight, and has no wish to help his family.

Included. The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe,. Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin,. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving,. Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone,. Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte,. The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley,. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne,. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne,. Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol,. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,. The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe,. An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,. Frog by Edgar Allan Poe,. The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare.

Der Tod seines Vaters überschattet die Kindheit des jungen David Copperfield. Als ihn sein Stiefvater in ein Internat schickt, soll sich der junge David den strengen Regeln des bürgerlichen Lebens fügen. Doch der plötzliche Verlust seiner Mutter zwingt den erst 10-Jährigen schließlich in die Arbeitswelt. Ohne Hilfe muss er sich den Schwierigkeiten des Lebens stellen. Doch Davids Lebensmut ist unerschöpflich und trotz aller Widrigkeiten erwartet Dickens‘ tapferen Helden ein Happy End.

Charles Dickens' Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte führt uns in das düstere London des 19. Jahrhunderts, wo der hartherzige Ebenezer Scrooge nur an Geld und Macht denkt. Doch in der Nacht vor Weihnachten wird er von drei Geistern besucht, die ihm die Fehler seiner Vergangenheit, die Trostlosigkeit seiner Gegenwart und die Dunkelheit seiner Zukunft vor Augen führen. Wird Scrooge das Herz öffnen und den wahren Geist der Weihnacht entdecken? Ein Weihnachtsmärchen voller Wärme, Mitgefühl und Hoffnung – perfekt für die besinnliche Jahreszeit.

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' 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.

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. If you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your reading and listening pleasure.

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time. Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your listening pleasure.

These novelists burst with a literary energy that is hard to contain. They cover a myriad of styles and themes, narratives packed full of fully-formed characters in powerful tales that have become an essential and integral part of our literary heritage.

Did you know that in Victorian England a part of the Christmas celebration was the telling of ghost stories? And the greatest and most beloved of all Christmas ghost stories is A Christmas Carol by the great Charles Dickens. Sit back and be prepared to be just a little scared but in the end you will be very much into the holiday spirit (or spirits) while listening to this wonderful rendering of this most classic of all Christmas ghost stories.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

This is Dickens’s third novel and was originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. It’s a wonderful example of Dickens’s ability to weave plots within plots and portray the most glorious characters. Both theatrical and prosaic, Dickens magnetically and majestically pulls the reader (or listener!) into his unique and inimitable world. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies leaving the family impoverished.

Bevor Charles Dickens mit "Oliver Twist" berühmt wurde, schrieb er Kurzgeschichten. 1836 veröffentlichte er die "Londoner Skizzen". Es sind Beobachtungen, Fantasien und Fiktionen, in denen Dickens das alltägliche Leben humorvoll beschreibt und gleichzeitig die sozialen Missstände im England des 19. Jahrhunderts kritisiert. Sie alle zeigen das London, das er so gut kannte, im Guten wie im Schlechten – seine Straßen, Theater, Gasthäuser, Pfandhäuser und Gefängnisse. Mit seiner eindringlichen Stimme erweckt Tom Vogt Dickens’ Alltagsszenen zum Leben.

This is Charles Dickens’s second novel and regarded as one of his best. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and titled; Oliver Twist, or; A Parish Boys Progress. As a book, it first appeared in 1838 in three volumes. The story follows the title character Oliver Twist, who, being born and raised in a workhouse for the first ten years of his life, runs away to nearby London. Here, he falls in with a gang of young thieves and pickpockets controlled by Fagin, an elderly criminal.