The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. Dickens began writing the book around 17 October 1845 and …
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. 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 …
Η Χριστουγεννιάτικη Ιστορία είναι μια νουβέλα του Άγγλου συγγραφέα Καρόλου Ντίκενς που πρωτοδημοσιεύτηκε στις 19 Δεκεμβρίου 1843. Αναφέρεται στην ιδεολογική, ηθική και συναισθηματική μεταστροφή του παράξενου και τσιγκούνη Εμπενίζερ Σκρουτζ μετά την υπερφυσική επίσκεψη που δέχτηκε από τον πεθαμένο συνεταίρο του …
The Haunted House is a story published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round. It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with contributions from others. It is a "portmanteau" story, with Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors: "The Mortals …