Charles Dickens

Broschiertes Buch

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Charles Dickens-Volume 1

Contains Two Novellas 'A Christmas Carol' and 'A House to let' and Nineteen Short Stories to Chill the Blood

Beschreibung

A Victorian master of tales from beyond the veil The works of Charles Dickens are justifiably famous and timeless classics. His most famous ghostly tale, 'A Christmas Carol' has become THE Christmas ghost story and has been filmed and dramatised for the stage and radio on numerous occasions. It is also well known that Dickens had a particular palate for the fiction of the strange, other worldly and bizarre, indeed there have been collections of his strange and weird tales published in the past. This special Leonaur collection is different containing, perhaps, an unprecedented 35 novellas, novelettes and short stories within two coordinating volumes available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jackets. Volume one contains the evergreen 'A Christmas Carol,' the novella 'A House to Let' and nineteen short stories including 'Well-Authenticated Rappings,' 'Lying Awake,' 'The Queer Chair,' 'The Black Veil,' 'The Goodwood Ghost' and the renowned 'The Signalman'-among many others. This may be the essential Dickens Ghost Story collection and will be a joy to his many enthusiastic readers.

Autor

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LEONAUR
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781846778452
• ISBN-10: 184677845X
• Artikelnr.: 27196188