C. Dickens

Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2008

Includes introduction and notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter and Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers . With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. This novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. "Oliver Twist" features some of the author`s most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and `the Artful Dodger`.

Издательство: АСТ
Дата выхода: февраль 2008

Стильно оформленное подарочное издание с трехсторонним окрашенным обрезом. Tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn`t change his ways he will die a miserable man.

Издательство: Collector's Library
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

Издательство: Книжный мир
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Oliver Twist is one of Dickens`s most popular novels, with many famous film, television and musical adaptations. It is a classic story of good against evil, packed with humour and pathos, drama and suspense, in which the orphaned Oliver is brought up in a harsh workhouse, and then taken in and exploited by the criminal Fagin, before being eventually rescued and taken in by a loving family. Формат: 10 см x 15,5 см.

Издательство: Collector's Library
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens` last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father`s heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents - the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering`s dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title — offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of A Tale of Two Cities includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Fisher. They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other - Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a...

Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: октябрь 2006

Англ.яз. “CHILD AS HE WAS, HE WAS DESPERATE WITH HUNGER, AND RECKLESS WITH MISERY. HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE, AND ADVANCING TO THE MASTER, BASIN AND SPOON IN HAND, SAID, SOMEWHAT ALARMED AT HIS OWN TEMERITY: ‘PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SOME MORE. THE MASTER GAZED IN STUPEFIED ASTONISHMENT ON THE SMALL REBEL. ‘WHAT!’ SAID THE MASTER AT LENGTH.” DICKENS’ WELL-LOVED STORY OF A WORKHOUSE ORPHAN.

Издательство: АСТ
Дата выхода: январь 2006

Издательство: MM publications
Дата выхода: июль 2005

Издательство: MM publications
Дата выхода: июль 2005

Considered by many to be Dickens` finest novel, "Great Expectations" traces the growth of the book`s narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens` most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip`s good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own "great expectations" - in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling...

Издательство: Wordsworth
Дата выхода: май 2005

"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 Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in particular.

Издательство: Wordsworth
Дата выхода: май 2005

Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

Dickens` classic rags-to-riches tale of Pip, an orphan who inherits a mysterious fortune and all of the troubles that go with it. The dynamic teen-oriented cover makes this the book to have in stock.

Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

The classic tale by Charles Dickens of tight-fisted, cold-hearted Scrooge who undergoes a transformation at Christmas.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Abandoned at an early age, Oliver is forced to live in a dark and dismal workhouse lorded over by Mr Bumble who cheats the boys of their meagre rations. Desperate but determined, Oliver escapes. But what he discovers on the streets of London`s underworld makes the workhouse look like a picnic.

Издательство: ОЛМА-Пресс
Дата выхода: октябрь 2003

`A Tale of Two Cities` (1859), Dickens` greatest historical 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 great work - `The FrenchRevolution` - and also on his own observations and investigations during numerous visits to Paris. `The best story I have written` was Dickens` own verdict on `A Tale of Two Cities`, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author`s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1999

Dickens had already achieved renown with `The Pickwick Papers`. With `Oliver Twis`t his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumphof good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author`s most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and `the Artful Dodger`. For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, `Oliver Twist is`, without doubt, an essential title.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001

"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 consciousof 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.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Following the success of `Pickwick Papers` and `Oliver Twist`, `Nicholas Nickleby` was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a `literary gentleman`. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his traveling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more. Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novelis eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was its impact as it left Dickens` pen that many pirated versions appeared in print and on stage before the original was even finished. Often neglected by critics, `Nicholas Nickleby`...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the `Sensation Novel` as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in Victorian London. Drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder are among the themes and motifs A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens`s usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens`s...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens` comic masterpiece about which his biographer. Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author`s development as he began to delve deeper into the `springs of character`. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather`s servant, Mary Graham, with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee Company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens`...

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001

`Little Dorrit` is a classic Dickensian tale of imprisonment - both literal and symbolic - while Dickens` working title for the novel, `Nobody`s Fault`, emphasises its theme of personal responsibility in all areas of life. The book draws intimately on the author`s own personal childhood experiences of the dreadful Marshalsea Debtor`s Prison and is full of psychological insights combining fascinating historical and social detail and masterful character portrayal to create a dramatic `tour de force`. Indisputably one of Dickens` finest works, George Bernard Shaw described `Little Dorrit` as a `masterpiece among many masterpieces`, a verdict shared by millions of readers before and since.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001

Dickens wrote of `David Copperfield`: `Of all my books I like this the best`. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author`s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction`s greatest stars including Mr. Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggotty family. Few readers, arriving at the end of `David Copperfield`, will not wish to echo Thackeray`s famous praise, having read the first monthly part - `Bravo Dickens`.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001

Dickens`s first historical novel is set against the infamous `No Popery` riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who would exploit these for political ends, are Dickens`s targets. His vivid account of the riots at the heart of the novel is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism. A typically rich cast of comic characters, from the snivelling Miss Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted `Barnaby Rudge` of the title, ensures high entertainment.

Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001