Oliver Twist / Los Papeles Póstumos del Club Pickwick / Un Cuento de Navidad

by Charles Dickens

La maestría de Charles Dickens es alucinante. Los fraseos, los personajes, la ironía y el ingenio, a menudo te encontrarás inmerso durante unos segundos sólo para preguntarte cómo alguien podía ser tan talentoso. Y Los papeles póstumos del Club Pickwick fue el comienzo de su carrera.

Los Papeles Póstumos del Club Pickwick
Este libro fue el primero Dickens y publicado originalmente en entregas mensuales. Los capítulos están unidos a través de los personajes del libro, pero la mayoría pueden leerse por separado. Tenemos historias de abogados picapleitos, donde se beben en grandes cantidades, cuentos dentro de capítulos, una estancia en una prisión de deudores y una vasta cantidad de humanidad.


Oliver Twist
Es una de las primeras novelas de Dickens - trabajó en los papeles de Pickwick, Oliver Twist y Nicholas Nickleby al mismo tiempo - y uno de sus más queridos. Tiene lo que se puede esperar de él: personajes memorables, descripciones sugerentes, melodrama, pathos (más a menudo Bathos) y una trama que se basa en coincidencias completamente increíbles.
Generalmente, sin embargo el humor es el conductor y este libro es muy divertido.
Leer de principio a fin, esta obra es una experiencia maravillosa.

Un Cuento de Navidad
En el lenguaje original que usó Dickens en 1840. Su lenguaje permanece un Morris tico humor histérico descriptivo Y revelador Y no inaccesible para la mayoría de los lectores modernos con un con la ayuda del diccionario del cine. Esta es una excelente historia para leer en voz alta a las familias en tiempo de navidad también una excelente introducción al trabajo de Dickens y a los escritores victorianos. Lee esta obra maestra de la forma en la que fué originalmente escrita (sin cortes)

Kindle Edition

First published January 13, 2015

About the author

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) 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. 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.

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. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.

On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down.

(from Wikipedia)