A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens E-Book

Charles Dickens.

• Herausgeber: Autori Ebook
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

A Christmas Carol, one of the Charles Dickens' books most loved, was published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of old Ebenezer Scrooge (miserable, bitter old man without friends) and his transformation due to the supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Past , Present and Future Christmas. Charles Dickens is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. He is considered by critics the "founder " of the social novel , he portrays the lives of disadvantaged social classes and denounces injustice and prejudice situations.His imagination, wit, mastery of the language and huge creative make him one of the few people deserving to be called genius.

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Charles Dickens

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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ISBN9788898403370

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Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812 in a family of humble origins and with several problems. When in 1824 his father was imprisoned because of his debts, he was obliged to interrupt his studies and to work for six months in a shoe polish factory. He began to live in a state of absolute poverty and deprivation that marked definitively his character and his later work. Permanently abandoned his studies, he worked as a clerk in a law firm, then as a parliamentary reporter, until he got a job as a journalist in 1829. In 1837 was born his first work that began his great success and thanks to "The Pickwick Papers" he published "Oliver Twist" in episodes. In the following fifteen years Dickens wrote to his best works including "Stories of Christmas" and the famous "David Copperfield". His fame spread quickly around the world; during his life he visited America, France and settled in Genoa, Italy. He got sick during a trip to America, so he concentrated on his last work, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", which remained unfinished due to his death on June 9th, 1870. He was buried on June 14th with large honors in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.