Charles Dickens eBooks
eBooks di Charles Dickens editi da Augusto Baldassari di Formato Mobipocket
Il Circolo Pickwick. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Charles Dickens - Augusto Baldassari, 2017 -
Il primo romanzo dello scrittore inglese viene considerato uno dei capolavori della letteratura britannica.Il romanzo fu pubblicato a fascicoli, e la loro pubblicazione divenne una sorta di evento: nelle famiglie, nei cortili, si aspettava che chi ne aveva i mezzi comperasse il fascicolo e lo leggesse a chi non ne aveva la possibilità.Dickens, con umorismo e sagacia, inventa un ritratto eccentrico e nostalgico di un'Inghilterra di un'epoca umana e cordiale, immagine che verrà capovolta nei successivi romanzi, più drammatici, che rappresenteranno invece tutto il cinismo della società del suo tempo.
A tale of two cities. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Charles Dickens - Augusto Baldassari, 2014 -
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of literary fiction.The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. The 45-chapter novel was published in 31 weekly instalments in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round. From April 1859 to November 1859, Dickens also republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. All but three of Dickens's previous novels had appeared only as monthly instalments. The first weekly instalment of A Tale of Two Cities ran in the first issue of All the Year Round on 30 April 1859. The last ran thirty weeks later, on 26 November.
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Charles Dickens - Augusto Baldassari, 2014 -
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert Seymour had committed suicide. With the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. After the publication, the widow of Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.