Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that ful...
Ostatni weekend lata. Steve Hogan z żoną Nancy jadą odebrać dzieci z obozu. Podobnie jak wielu innych Amerykanów. Tyle że dla Steve'a ta droga w korkach to istna udręka. Uratować go mogą tyl...
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of...
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in pr...
Tytułowy Huck to psotnik jakich mało. Wychowuje go wdowa Douglas. Gdy jednak do miasteczka powraca ojciec chłopca ten postanawia uciec. Wkrótce dołącza do niego Jim, zbiegły niewolnik wdowy....
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is b...
Minęło już niemal półtora wieku od momentu, kiedy pojawił się na świecie Tomek Sawyer, bohater powieści Marka Twaina (i jego portret z lat dziecinnych). Cóż ma w sobie takiego ten dwu...
Powieść Marka Twaina, wydana po raz pierwszy w 1876 roku, niemal z miejsca doczekała się wielkiej popularności wśród dzieci. Ukazuje przygody małego chłopca w miasteczku na Środkowym Zachodz...
Bohater książki z nędznego prowincjonalnego przytułku dla sierot trafia w ręce szefa szajki londyńskich złodziei. Przymuszany do przestępczych działań, wciągnięty w mroczny świat kryminalnego środo...
Niezwykłe przygody Olivera Twista, sympatycznego i dobrego chłopca, urodzonego w schronisku dla bezdomnych, ciekawią, wzruszają i bawią od ponad stu pięćdziesięciu lat zarówno młodzież, jak ...
Spencer Ashby wiedzie spokojne życie nauczyciela w małym miasteczku. Dopóki morderstwo nie burzy tego porządku. Bella była córką znajomej Christine, żony Spencera. Zbyt młodą, by umrz...
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 's...
Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, ho...
Tom and Huck - Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - are the heroes in Mark Twain's picture of life in a small town on the bank of the great Mississippi river about 150 years ago. Tom lives with his...
Tom and Huck - Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - are the heroes in Mark Twain's picture of life in a small town on the bank of the great Mississippi river about 150 years ago. Tom lives with his...
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept,...
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept,...
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From...
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From...
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, d...