Charles Dickens eBooks
eBooks di Charles Dickens editi da Sis Publishing
Great expectations. E-book. Formato EPUB Charles Dickens - Sis Publishing, 2013 -
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” –from Great Expectations Great Expectations, a Bildungsroman, believed to represent Charles Dickens' peak and maturity as an author, written in 1861, is a classic work of the Victorian novel and depicts a vast range of subjects and incidents of the time, Dickens' concerns, and the relationship between society and man by describing the personal development and growth of an orphan named Pip. In Great Expectations, typical Dickensian themes like wealth, poverty, love, good and evil emerge which may have contributed to its popularity and regardless of its narrative technique, the novel is written in a completely balanced style that proves Charles Dickens’ being a master craftsman, let alone his illustrative gift for realistic and dramatic speech. It shall suffice to remember the appraisal that good George Bernard Shaw made about this classic novel: "All of one piece and consistently truthful."
Hard times. E-book. Formato EPUB Charles Dickens - Sis Publishing, 2013 -
“Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life." – from Hard Times Like all his other novels, this again is a masterpiece by Charles Dickens, with a delightful and witty narrative showing the inadequacy of an approach to life that emphasizes only the human intellect at the expense of the imagination and feelings of the heart. The hard and poor life conditions in England’s cruel and deadly industrial cities is critisized. Charles Dickens also aimed at attacking the failures in education and the wrong-headedness of the educational philosophy in use. In his novel, he deals with family and education, which are shown closely related with a critical analysis of the effect on the growth and learning of the individual. Charles Dickens is definitely one of the most powerful and important English authors, who was able to depict the working class along with all their difficulties in such a way, that everyone had and has to refer to him first before putting ink to paper about this very topic.
A tale of two cities. E-book. Formato EPUB Charles Dickens - Sis Publishing, 2013 -
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” – From A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities, his twelfth novel, whose germ it is believed he got from Willkie Collins’ The Frozen Deep, setting in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, in his literary journal All the Year Round in weekly parts from April to November in 1859. A Tale of Two Cities, in part a historical novel with a grim and somber mood, combining the themes like resurrection, manifested both literally and metaphorically, and class struggle, which is quite unusual to skip when the French Revolution is in question, is built around a great and firm story of love, and starts with the well-known beginning line: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"