
Cărți de Charles Dickens

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 by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he was returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education and other social reforms.
Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers, a publishing phenomenon—thanks largely to the introduction of the character Sam Weller in the fourth episode—that sparked Pickwick merchandise and spin-offs. Within a few years Dickens had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris) is his best-known work of historical fiction. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social or working conditions, or comically repulsive characters.


Great Expectations

A Christmas Carol
Young Reading Series 2

Our Mutual Friend
Dover Thrift Editions

Charles Dickens: Four Novels
Leather-bound Classics

David Copperfield
Macmillan Collector's Library

Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples: with Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall

A Tale of Two Cities

Oliver Twist
Wadsworth Collection

Hard Times
Wordsworth Classics

Bleak House
Wadsworth Collection

Bleak House
Real Reads (Real Reads Ltd)

Poveste de Crăciun

Dombey and Son
Wordsworth Classics

Nicholas Nickleby

Quentin Blake's a Christmas Carol

The Uncommercial Traveller

Penguin Readers Level 5: David Copperfield (ELT Graded Reader)

Penguin Readers Level 6: Great Expectations (ELT Graded Reader)

Dickens at Christmas
Vintage Classics

A Christmas Carol BBC TV Tie-In

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Penguin Readers Level 1: A Christmas Carol (ELT Graded Reader)

Charles Dickens' Christmas Stories

David Copperfield
Classics Illustrated

A Christmas Carol (Collins Classics)
Collins Classics

Christmas Carol
Collins Classroom Classics

Dickens, C: Hard Times
Collins Classics

Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol: A Book-To-Table Classic
Puffin Plated

A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol
Guinea Pig Classics

Scenes of London Life
Macmillan Collector's Library

Oxford Children's Classic: A Christmas Carol
Oxford Children's Classic

Poems

Tale of Two Cities

The Life of Our Lord
Quirky Classics

A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition

A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist
Guinea Pig Classics

A Tale of Two Cities
Macmillan Collector's Library

Hard Times
Macmillan Collector's Library

The Pickwick Papers
Macmillan Collector's Library

To Be Read at Dusk
Penguin Little Black Classics

A Christmas Carol (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with an Introduction by Hall Caine)

The Pickwick Papers
Vintage Classics

A Christmas Carol
Graphic Revolve: Common Core Editions

A Christmas Carol (Wisehouse Classics - with original illustrations)

A Christmas Carol, Deluxe Edition

The Haunted House

Hard Times
Vintage Dickens

Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen and Young Couples

The Great Winglebury Duel
Penguin Little Black Classics

George Silverman's Explanation

Der Weihnachtsabend
Reclam Universal-Bibliothek, nr. 18740

The Mudfog Papers

Supernatural Short Stories

Ladybird Classics: Oliver Twist

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories

Dickens, C: Level 6: Great Expectations Book and MP3 Pack
Pearson English Graded Readers

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Dickens, C: Level 4: Bleak House Book & Multi-ROM with MP3 P
Pearson English Active Readers

A Christmas Carol, Comics
Classics Illustrated, nr. 15

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Un Cuento de Navidad / A Christmas Carol

Illustrated Stories from Dickens

Oliver Twist

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Die Weihnachtserzählung
Große Klassiker zum kleinen Preis

Christmas Carol+cd
Reading & Training

Macmillan Readers Oliver Twist Intermediate Reader Without CD
Macmillan Readers

Classic Starts(tm) Oliver Twist: The Red Badge of Courage
Classic Starts

Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Oliver Twist

The Annotated Christmas Carol – A Christmas Carol in Prose
The Annotated Books

Die Pickwickier
Diogenes Taschenbücher

A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
Modern Library Classics

Our Mutual Friend
Wordsworth Classics

Complete Ghost Stories
Wordsworth Classics

Christmas Books
Wordsworth Classics

A Christmas Carol
NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 11-14

A Christmas Carol
Wordsworth Classics

A Tale of Two Cities
Wadsworth Collection

David Copperfield
Wadsworth Collection

David Copperfield (NCE)

David Copperfield

Bleak House (NCE)

Seek and Find

Cuento de Navidad

Pictures from Italy
Dover Thrift Editions

A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Tales
Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions

The Old Curiosity Shop
Arcturus Paperback Classics

Dickens on Railways

London
Vintage Minis: Great minds. Big ideas. Little Books

Mugby Junction

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Alma Classics 101 Pages

A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics Dickens Series)
Vintage Classics
