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Anch'egli, in fondo al cuore, rideva: e gli bastava questo e non chiedeva altro. In questa natalizia storia di fantasmi Charles Dickens ci conquista da subito con la sua irriverente ironia, per farci poi scendere nel profondo dei segreti più teneri dell’animo di Scrooge, con passo talmente delicato che non ce ne accorgiamo nemmeno.

It was a murky confusion here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

„Wer ihn sah in seinem Studierzimmer - halb Bibliothek, halb Laboratorium - er war ein weltberühmter Gelehrter und Chemiker und täglich hingen Hunderte an seinen Lippen - wer ihn dort sah in einsamer Winternacht - unbeweglich - umgeben von seinen Giften und seinen Instrumenten und Büchern, wenn der Schatten seiner Schirmlampe wie ein riesiger Käfer an der Wand hockte und der flackernde Schein des Feuers gespenstische Gestalten malte auf die Wandlungen der fremdartigen, seltsam aussehenden Phiolen, der fühlte, der Mann ist behext und das Zimmer dazu.”

SEA STORIES tells the entire tale. You will find excerpts of some of the most famous nautical stories of all time. Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor!

The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be settled, changing the lives of those involved.Esther Summerson, a young woman raised in a tough and unloving atmosphere, is unexpectedly requested to be a companion to two teenage orphans, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, for whom the court has appointed as guardian, John Jarndyce. They take up residence at Mr. Jarndyce’s home, Bleak House. The story of their lives and ...

Before he started writing novels, Charles Dickens tried his hand at theater. The Village Coquettes is a two act musical. Sadly the music was lost long ago so this will be a spoken version.View our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or YouTube channel: https://www.solgood.org/subscribe Check out our ad free subscription: http://www.adfreesounds.com for our Premium, 10 Hour Sounds

Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold and crystal on the tables of ‘Society’. A tale of murder, treachery, jealousy and love, takes us first to a rowing boat on the Thames, where the Hexhams have found a body in the water and are bringing it to shore. We attend the Boffins, a poor naïve couple, who unexpectedly have just become wealthy, after their employer dies and names them in his will. Silas Wegg becomes their ‘literary man’ and John Rokesmith, a mysterious man, becomes their ...

"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form. Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. It is also Dickens' "favorite child." View our full collection of podcasts at our website: https://www.solgoodmedia.com or YouTube channel: https://www.solgood.org/subscribe

„Mr. Craggs schien selbst mit seinen Türangeln zu knirschen, als er seine Meinung darlegte, deren Eindruck er durch sein Äußeres bedeutend verstärkte, denn er war ein kalter, trockener, finsterer Mann, in Grau und Weiß gehüllt wie ein Feuerstein, und hatte kleine funkelnde Augen, als ob man Feuer aus ihnen schlüge.

Am Heiligen Abend erscheint dem herzlosen, geizigen und widerlichen Geschäftemacher Ebnezer Scrooge der Geist seines verstorbenen Partners Marley und zeigt ihm die Folgen von Habgier und Einsamkeit. Scrooge ist zutiefst beunruhigt. „Wie ein Christbaum ohne Kerzen ist Weihnachten ohne dieses wunderschöne Märchen von Charles Dickens.“

„Mrs. Peerybingle ging in die unheimliche Dämmerung hinaus und klapperte mit ihren Pantoffeln, unendlich viele rohe Abdrücke des ersten Euklidischen Lehrsatzes auf dem Hofe zurücklassend, über die nassen Steine, um den Kessel aus dem Wasserfass zu füllen. Sodann kehrte sie in das Haus zurück, d. h. ohne die Pantoffel - und das ist ein großer Unterschied, denn die Pantoffel waren hoch und Mrs. Peerybingle war klein - und nun stellte sie den Kessel ans Feuer. Dabei verschwand ihre gute Laune, oder Mrs. Peerybingle hatte sie beiseitegelegt.

Oliver Twist ist ein Gesellschaftsroman von Charles Dickens, der unter dem vollständigen Titel „Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress“ („Oliver Twist oder der Weg des Fürsorgezöglings“) von Februar 1837 bis April 1839 in Fortsetzungen in der Zeitschrift „Bentley’s Miscellany“ erschien. Oliver Twist ist Dickens’ zweiter Roman. Er wurde mehrfach für Theater, Kino, Fernsehen und Comic adaptiert. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der im Armenhaus aufwächst, ohne etwas über seine Herkunft zu wissen.

„Toby Veck war nämlich Dienstmann und wartete dort auf seine Aufträge. Im Winter zu warten war‘s freilich eine windige Stelle, wo man die Gänsehaut bekam, rote Augen und blaue Nasen und sich Zähneklappern und erfrorene Zehen holen konnte. Toby Veck wusste davon ein Lied zu singen. Der Wind blies pfeifend um die Ecke, besonders der Ost. Als wenn er von den äußersten Grenzen der Erde daherkäme, um Toby anzublasen. Und manchmal schien er ihn früher angetroffen zu haben, als er vermutete, denn wenn er um die Ecke kam und an Toby vorüberfuhr, kehrte er plötzlich wieder um, als wollte er sagen, aha, da ist er ja schon.

Three Ghost Stories is just that: a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. The three stories, The Signal Man, The Haunted House and The Trial for Murder were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well, thanks to Charles Dickens' superb skills at storytelling. The Signal Man is the most well known of the three, chronicling the haunting of a railroad signal man who is visited by a ghost just before a tragic event is to happen on the railway. If you like Dickens and tales of spectres and the supernatural, you'll love Three Ghost Stories.

"The Trial for Murder" is a short story written by Charles Dickens. It was originally published under the title "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt" as a chapter in Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions in an extra Christmas volume of the weekly literary magazine, All the Year Round. It was later published in 1866 in a collection of ghost stories known as "Three Ghost Stories", along with "The Haunted House" and "The Signal-Man".

The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear.

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.

Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864-1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life". Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens' skill as a writer in general, but did not review this novel in detail.

"The Haunted House" is a story series published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round. It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors. The story appeared in the Extra Christmas Number on 13 December 1859. Dickens began a tradition of Christmas publications with A Christmas Carol in 1843 and his Christmas stories soon became a national institution. The Haunted House was his 1859 offering.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY: It was profoundly observed by a witty member of the Court of Common Council, in Council assembled in the City of London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, that the French are a frog-eating people, who wear wooden shoes.