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Hard Times – ebook
Charles Dickens
This is one of the most uplifting of Dickens’s novels. This book is certainly different from all the other books by Charles Dickens as it has no particular central character. Well all the other novels by Dickens have a strong connection with London but this story depicts Coketown and Coketown only, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. Hard Times is a very tragic and wonderfully described...Data dostępności:
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Bleak House – ebook
Charles Dickens
Money often changes people’s lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours? Would you work or quit your job? Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth? Would you behave differently? These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Bleak House, like many of Dickens’ writings, is about various social issues....Data dostępności:
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Little Dorrit – ebook
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, is the story of Amy Dorrit, a kind and compassionate young woman who is born impoverished and becomes wealthy, but retains her goodness and strength of character throughout. Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. The story of a girl who is taking care of a large family and her love for the rich young man, and at the same time sarcastic description of English...Data dostępności:
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The Old Curiosity Shop – ebook
Charles Dickens
1839. It tells the story of Nelly Trent and her grandfather as they wander the English countryside, north of London, trying to evade Daniel Quilp, probably Dickens’ most evil villain. Nell’s grandfather has borrowed money from Quilp to support a gambling habit and has lost everything, including the curiosity shop. But Quilp isn’t sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also...Data dostępności:
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Dombey and Son – ebook
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm...Data dostępności:
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Our Mutual Friend – ebook
Charles Dickens
The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmon’s would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam,...Data dostępności:
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A Christmas Carol – ebook
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is one of the most legendary stories by Charles Dickens. This edition contains the original 1843 illustrations by celebrated caricaturist John Leech. The story has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen...Data dostępności:
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World Classics: Oliver Twist – ebook
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist jest spędza dzieciństwo w ponurym sierocińcu. Głód, zimno i nieludzkie traktowanie to codzienność wychowanków "bidula". W dniu dziewiątych urodzin zostaje przeniesiony do innego przytułku, z którego zostaje wyrzucony na bruk, gdy prosi o dokładkę jedzenia. Od tej chwili młody bohater jest zdany tylko na siebie. Na naiwnego i dobrodusznego chłopca czekają mroczne strony życia wykluczonych....Data dostępności:
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Samotnia I – ebook
Charles Dickens
Wielu – wśród nich Vladimir Nabokov i G.K. Chesterton – określa Samotnię najlepszą i najbardziej dojrzałą powieścią Charlesa Dickensa, a Stephen King zalicza ją do swoich dziesięciu ulubionych książek. Przede wszystkim jest to oparta na prawdziwych sądowniczych przypadkach historia o bezwzględnym działaniu absurdalnego brytyjskiego prawa, na pierwszy plan wysuwają się w niej jednak kobiece losy....Data dostępności:
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – ebook
Charles Dickens
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking...Data dostępności:
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