De familie Dorrit verblijft door schulden belast meer dan 20 jaar in de schuldengevangenis de Marshalsea in Londen. Zullen zij ontlast worden van hun schulden? Zullen de heldin en...

Vertaling van het kerstverhaal van 1867. Een verwisseling van twee vondelingen in hun vroege jeugd veroorzaakt op volwassen leeftijd de nodige complicaties. Bijzonder is dat dit...

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens work, the book is used to call the publics attention to various...

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickenss full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out....

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens finest and most...

Nascido na França, Henry Guy de Maupassant (1850) foi escritor, poeta e um dos maiores contistas de todos os tempos. Sua obra Uma Vida gira em torno de Jeanne, uma jovem que...

Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his...

Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented...

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style.

Dickens last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, a rich dust contractor, in his will. To...