Čārlzs Dikenss

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her …

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that …

"Ziemassvētku dziesma", grāmatas pilnais nosaukums — "Ziemassvētku dziesma prozā jeb Ziemassvētku spoku stāsts", ir 1843. gadā izdota angļu rakstnieka Čārlza Dikensa novele. Grāmata ir par skopā Ebenīzera Skrūdža ideoloģijas, ētikas un emocionālisma pārvērtībām pēc pārdabiskās Džeikoba Mārlija un trīs Ziemassvētku …

"Olivera Tvista piedzīvojumi" ir angļu rakstnieka Čārlza Dikensa romāns. To 1838. gadā izdeva Ričards Bentlijs. Grāmata ir stāsts par bāreni Oliveru Tvistu, kas sākumā pacieš nožēlojamu dzīvi darba namā, vēlāk neilgu laiku dzīvo pie meistara, taču vēlāk aizbēg uz Londonu. Tur kļūst par nepilngadīgo kabatzagļu bandas …

Dickens’s favorite of all his novels, David Copperfield is the story of a boy who loses both parents at an early age, and who escapes the torture of working for his pitiless stepfather to make something of himself and, with any luck, find true happiness. David Copperfield features an unforgettable gallery of …

One of a series of classic stories retold in very easy English. The whole series comprises one level only, and uses a 500-word vocabulary as formulated for stage 1 of the "Longman Classics" series and stage 1 structures as specified in the "Longman Structural Readers Handbook".

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr …

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first …

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original …

One of Dickens' earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his remarkably vivid display of Victorian characters and the life they lead, from the generous to the fated to crushed. Hope springs …