Charles Dickens

Novela costumbrista, con matices psicológicos, que narra la vida de un adolescente cuyos factores sentimentales y humanos, la esperanza, la ilusión, entran en juego en repetidas ocasiones. La vida de este muchacho humilde cambia bajo la influencia de un misterioso bienhechor y de unos dramáticos amores. La obra presenta un...

"El Grillo del Hogar" conjuga las principales habilidades de Dickens: por un lado, el humor con el que presenta a sus personajes (la sordera del misterioso viejo, el descuidado bebé cuya cabeza golpea con las paredes) o dialoga burlonamente con el lector; por el otro, la utilización de los...

Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs “David Copperfield”. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked...

Charles Dickens gives us two ghosts stories: the first is "The Signalman", where a visitor comes to a signal-box next to a railway tunnel and the signalman teels him a frightening story. Is there a ghost on the railway? The second story is "The Ghost at the Trial" where...

Pip is a poor, uneducated boy who works as an apprentice blacksmith for his sister's husband. Pip has got a serious dilemma. He's in love with the beautiful, arrogant Estella, and will do Pip anything to win her heart, but how? Then one day, opportunity knocks on his door,...

Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the...

Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the...

“A Chrismas Carol” es un cuento navideño, el primero de los que sobre este tema escribió Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Narra cómo el protagonista, un hombre avaro, frío y sin corazón, recibe la víspera de Navidad la visita del fantasma de su fallecido socio, quien le advierte que se le...

“A Chrismas Carol” es un cuento navideño, el primero de los que sobre este tema escribió Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Narra cómo el protagonista, un hombre avaro, frío y sin corazón, recibe la víspera de Navidad la visita del fantasma de su fallecido socio, quien le advierte que se le...