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Trains have always held a special place for most of us. We’re intrigued by the mere fact that we can sit down in one place and arrive in another and enjoy the adventure and time in between. In this volume we explore both the journeys and the workers who run and maintain the railway network.

Included. The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe,. Alice Addertongue by Benjamin Franklin,. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving,. Prosper Mérimée by Mateo Falcone,. Napoleon And The Spectre by Charlotte Bronte,. The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley,. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne,. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne,. Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol,. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,. The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe,. An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,. Frog by Edgar Allan Poe,. The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare.

Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop performed by his Great Great Grandson Gerald Dickens. A tale about Little Nell, a young girl who lives in the Old Curosity Shop, London with her grandfather. Through not wanting her to die in poverty as her parents did. Nell's grandfather gambles what little money they have left and the tale takes on an even darker turn.

In his final Christmas story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory.

The shadows grow longer, the air grows colder, and the season of spirits arrives. Within this first volume of Halloween Haunts are six classic stories that have chilled and fascinated listeners for generations.

A Christmas Carol is a timeless novella by the renowned English author Charles Dickens, first published on December 17, 1843. This beloved story follows the transformation of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound ideological, ethical, and emotional awakening after being visited by the ghostly apparitions of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. With its rich themes of redemption and the spirit of Christmas, the novella quickly captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. (Summary by Wikipedia)

David Copperfield, una historia llena de épica y exuberancia, es una de las obras más importantes de Charles Dickens y uno de los libros más célebres de la literatura universal. Cuenta la historia de David Copperfied y de los villanos, salvadores y excéntricos que se cruzan por su camino, personajes como Mr. Murdstone, el valiente Peggotty, la formidable Betsey Trotwood, el miserable Micawber y la odiosa Uriah Heep.

Fully dramatized by best-selling narrator Steve Cook, with cinematic music and sound effects, this unabridged re-telling of Dickens' classic Christmas tale has something for everyone. All the sounds of 19th-century London are captured, from clopping hooves on cobblestones to booming Westminster chimes at midnight to the supernatural comings and goings of Scrooge’s four nocturnal visitors. Plus, a complete soundtrack of suspenseful and seasonal music throughout puts the finishing touches on a true, old-fashioned radio theatre-style experience.

Oliver Twist é um menino órfão que perdeu sua mãe ao nascer e cresce em uma paróquia. Aos 10 anos retorna ao asilo de pobres onde nasceu, lá Oliver é castigado e encaminhado para ser aprendiz em uma funerária, onde é muito maltratado e por isso decide fugir. Em Londres, conhece John Dawkins, que lhe oferece abrigo e comida, ingenuamente Oliver o segue e se envolve em uma gangue de ladrões. Qual será o destino deste pobre menino?

Ebenezer Scrooge is mean and unpleasant. He dislikes people and Christmas especially but on this particular Christmas Eve he’s visited by the ghost of his business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. As Ebenezer sees the effects he’s had on people’s lives, he is transformed.

Wer Großes erwartet vom Leben, obwohl er doch nur ein armer Waisenjunge ist, dem eigentlich nur eine "Karriere" als Dorfschmied offensteht, der muss sich auf allerhand Hindernisse und Versuchungen gefasst machen, ehe sich die Erwartungen erfüllen. Vielleicht tun sie’s auch gar nicht? "Große Erwartungen" ist der dreizehnte und vorletzte Roman von Charles Dickens. Er wird heute zu den Klassikern der britischen Literaturgeschichte gerechnet.

Vánoční koleda je povídka o zázraku a o naději starší než 170 let. Dokážou vánoční svátky změnit i toho nejzkaženějšího člověka? Pan Skrblíř je starý, hamižný muž. Nenávidí lidi a Vánoce jsou pro něj ztráta času a peněz. A právě v této době mu jeho synovec přijde popřát šťastné svátky a pozve ho na sváteční večeři. Skrblíř ho vyhodí ze svého domu. Na Štědrý den Skrblíře navštíví jeho zemřelý společník. Prozradí mu, že se mu zjeví tři duchové, díky kterým se může stát lepším člověkem, když bude sám chtít. Zjeví se mu duch minulých Vánoc, duch letošních Vánoc a duch příštích Vánoc.

Die klassischen Weihnachtserzählungen von Charles Dickens gehören seit Jahren zur Weihnachtszeit. Kobolde, Geister und Gespenster treiben in den Weihnachtserzählungen ihr wundersames Spiel mit den Menschen. In Scharen steigen sie kettenrasselnd aus dunklen Kellern, dringen durch die Ritzen im Kamin und quellen aus den Silvesterglocken. In seinen Geschichten, die er als einer der ersten Autoren termingerecht für das buchhändlerische Saisongeschäft schrieb, hat er den Zauber dieses Festes, seine verwandelnde Wirkung auf den Menschen unvergleichlich eingefangen.

"Vánoční koleda" je povídka o zázraku a o naději starší než 170 let. Dokážou vánoční svátky změnit i toho nejzkaženějšího člověka? Pan Skrblíř je starý, hamižný muž. Nenávidí lidi a Vánoce jsou pro něj ztráta času a peněz. A právě v této době mu jeho synovec přijde popřát šťastné svátky a pozve ho na sváteční večeři. Skrblíř ho vyhodí ze svého domu. Na Štědrý den Skrblíře navštíví jeho zemřelý společník. Prozradí mu, že se mu zjeví tři duchové, díky kterým se může stát lepším člověkem, když bude sám chtít.

Las coincidencias están a la orden del día. No te ha pasado algunas veces que, de mucho pensar en alguien, recibes una llamada telefónica de esa persona. O, por el contrario, tratando de evitarla, te la encuentres en un evento, en una calle, en fin, en un lugar en el que era imposible que te la cruces

Puede que la vida de los Nickleby no sea la más interesante, pero sin duda es apacible... hasta que el padre muere y la familia debe ir a Londres para pedir ayuda a un mezquino pariente. A cambio, este pone una condición: su sobrino trabajará como profesor en una escuela de Yorkshire.

The Battle of Life, A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title.

A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle’s history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding.The complex plot involves Sydney Carton’s sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie ...

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.