Great Expectations (Enriched Classics Series) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743406362 ISBN 13: 9780743406369

Verlag: Pocket Classics, 2000

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Book by Dickens Charles

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Reseña del editor:

The author's classic story of romance and manners in eighteenth-century England offers readers a timeless view of the human heart in action and includes a new introduction by Robert Maniquis. Reprint.

Biografía del autor:

Charles Dickens was born in England in 1812. Believing that if he worked hard enough he could achieve his dreams, he was shattered when his father moved the family to London in 1823, encountered financial disaster, and was arrested for debt and placed in debtor's prison. Dickens was forced to go to work at a blacking factory, labeling bottles. His memories from that period haunted him for the rest of his life.

After the family's financial situation improved, Dickens was able to return to school, and later to become an office boy, a freelance reporter, and finally an author. The Pickwick Papers brought Dickens instant notoriety; within a few years he was already the most popular and respected author of his time. In 1841 he went to America and was received with great enthusiasm. He is the author of such classics as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, and A Tale of Two Cities, among others. Due to his powers of observation, his sympathy with the humble, his sway over the emotions, and his incomparable gift of unalloyed fun, his works remain beloved by millions.

Dickens had ten children before his marriage ended in separation in 1858. He died after suffering a stroke in 1870.

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• Verlag: Pocket Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0743406362
• ISBN 13: 9780743406369
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 530