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The Pickwick Papers: На английском языке
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 760 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20091998-09-10
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The Pickwick Papers is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final number. In the century and a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
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Oliver Twist (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 72 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20082009-04-17
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A retelling of Dickens' famous novel about the trials and tribulations of the poor young orphan boy, Oliver. Follow his journey from the appalling conditions of a nineteenth-century workhouse to London.
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Great Expectations: На английском языке
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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A Tale of Two Cities
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1992 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20091994-10-13
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This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's The French Revolution, and his own observations and investigations during his numerous visits to Paris.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20091996-06-21
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The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him, and 'the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow', and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his works.
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Hard Times
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20091998-09-30
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Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown.
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Little Dorrit
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1996 Страниц: 848 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20091997-12-20
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Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel's range of characters — the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying — offers a portrait of society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112010-10-23
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As the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of view, showing how private experience relates to public history. Dickens' characters are fictional, and their political activity is minimal, yet all are drawn towards the Paris of the Terror, and all become caught up in its web of human suffering and human sacrifice. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes giving crucial background information about the Revolution and Dickens' sources. 'the best story I have written' Charles Dickens.
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Hard Times
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112013-03-16
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Hard Times--Dickens's shortest novel and one of his triumphs--tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.
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Pictures from Italy
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20102010-12-07
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«In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and «Pictures from Italy» is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his — and his readers' — eyes. Italy's most famous sights are all to be found here — St Peter's in Rome, Naples, with Vesuvius smouldering in the background, the fairytale buildings and canals of Venice — but Dickens's chronicle is not simply that of a tourist. Avoiding preconceptions and stereotypes, he portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present, as he observes everyday life beside ancient monuments. Combining thrilling travelogue with piercing social commentary, «Pictures from Italy» is a revealing depiction of an exciting and disquieting journey.»
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American Notes for General Circulation
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover everything from his uncomfortable sea voyage to an ecstatic narrative of his visit to Niagara Falls. Yet Dickens is also critical of American society, its preoccupation with money, and reliance on slavery, as well as the rude, unsavory manners of Americans and their corrupt press. Above all, American Notes is a lively chronicle of what was for Dickens an illuminating encounter with the New World.
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Great Expectations (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: CIDEB Год: 2012 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20172014-05-12
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Pip is destined to become a village blacksmith, but a chance meeting with an escaped prisoner and the acquaintance of an eccentric old woman and a beautiful young girl change the course of his life. He is suddenly dissatisfied with his social status and wants to become a gentleman. But one day he discovers a terrible secret.
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David Copperfield (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Pearson Год: 2012 Страниц: 100 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20172015-09-14
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Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner's own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: CRW Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20132014-05-22
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John Leech's original magnificent illustrations to A Christmas Carol have been beautifully hand-coloured by Barbara Frith. A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published.
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Great Expectations
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Sterling Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20152014-07-21
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Psychologically the latter part of Great Expectations is about the best thing Dickens ever did. George Orwell Philip Pirrip — known more commonly as Pip — is an orphan. His visits to the mysterious Miss Havisham are his only escape from his childhood of poverty. But then an anonymous bequest changes his life for ever — until secrets from Pip's past emerge, threatening to destroy the genteel new life he has built for himself, and Pip soon discovers the merciless cruelty of love, and the harsh reality of his great expectations.
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A Christmas Carol
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Sterling Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132014-08-23
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This is a beloved tale that will make the perfect present! Unabridged Classics are aimed at ages 10 years upwards with more than 330,000 copies sold! This is the unabridged story with insightful questions for discussion, fantastic artwork, a ribbon marker and high-quality paper. Beloved in Christmases past and sure to remain a favourite in Christmases of the future, Dickens' popular holiday tale is the perfect Christmas present. The uplifting tale follows the mysterious and magical events that transform the miserly, miserable Ebenezer Scrooge into 'as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man' as ever lived.
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2012 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20152014-05-18
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If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. It's all humbug to him. But one Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, and then by three more spirits... the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come. Will the things they show Scrooge be enough to make him change his miserly ways and learn the true meaning of Christmas?
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20132014-05-24
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«This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «The Old Curiosity Shop» by Charles Dickens. 'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a panting dog'. The tale of «Little Nell» gripped the nation when it first appeared in 1841. Described as a 'tragedy of sorrows', the story tells of Nell uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes many shapes, the most fascinating of which is the stunted, lecherous Quilp. Blending realism with non-realistic genres such as fairy-tale, allegory, and pastoral, the tale of Nell's tragedy contains some of Dickens most memorable comic and grotesque creations, including the dwarf Daniel Quilp, Dick Swiveller and Kit Nubbles. «The Penguin English Library» contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the first novels to the beginning of the First World War.»
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20142014-05-25
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«This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «Oliver Twist» by Charles Dickens. A parish child — the orphan of a workhouse — the humble, half-starved drudge — to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, «Oliver Twist» features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction — the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets. Dicken's novel is both an angry indictment of poverty, and an adventure filled with an air of threat and pervasive evil. «The Penguin English Library» — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.»
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Great Expectations
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20152015-04-17
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Shows how a young man's life is transformed by a mysterious series of events — an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor.
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