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Ghost Stories: CEFR level B1 (ELT Graded Reader) (English Edition) 13 juin 2021

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“I’m sure you are very lonely in this place,” I said. As I talked, I watched him but he stayed silent. There was something strange about him and he made me nervous.

I suddenly had a horrible thought: Is he a man or a ghost?

Here are four ghost stories by the famous British writer Charles Dickens, adapted for learners of English (CEFR level B1).

We meet a signalman working on a lonely railway line, who has a terrible secret … Two men, who are the only guests in a hotel where strange things keep happening … A painter, who meets a mysterious young woman on a train and is asked to paint her portrait … An old professor with many sad memories, who is given a choice – does he want to forget his past?

This book:

includes four exciting ghost stories: ‘The Signalman’, ‘The Ghost in the Bride’s Bedroom’, ‘The Portrait Painter’s Story’ and ‘The Haunted Man’
is adapted for learners of English from the classic Charles Dickens stories
uses grammar and vocabulary for learners at CEFR level B1 (strong Pre-intermediate level or Intermediate level)
has definitions of difficult words

Books at this level have a word count of 15,000–18,000 words and 1,600 headwords.

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Warning: This book may not suitable for young children.

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David Copperfield 1 mars 2014

par Charles Dickens

( 56 )

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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.
David Copperfield mène une vie heureuse dans la campagne, avec sa mère et sa nourrice, Pegotty. Son père meurt avant sa naissance. Lorsque la mère de David se remarie avec M. Murdstone, David est battu et maltraité par son beau père. M. Murdstone s’installe avec sa sœur très sévère, Mlle Murdstone, et ils décident de s’occuper de l’apprentissage de l’enfant. David est soumis à des répétitions de leçon cruelles : il est battu à chaque faute qu’il fait. David vit alors un enfer et grandit dans la peur de son beau-père. Un jour, au cours d’une dispute violente, David mord la main de son beau-père. Il est alors envoyé dans une pension très dure et doit faire face à la cruauté de M. Creackle, mais rien n’est pire que de vivre avec son beau père pour lui. David a alors 12 ans. En pension, il fait la connaissance de deux camarades, Steerforth et Traddles et se lie d’amitié avec eux. Il apprend que sa mère est morte subitement d’une maladie. David se retrouve alors seul, orphelin. M. Murdstone ne voulant payer lui-même la pension, envoie David dans une usine à Londres. Là bas il est contraint de nettoyer les bouteilles de l'entreprise Murdstone et Grinby pour un misérable salaire d’ouvrier. Il ne trouve le réconfort qu’auprès de Micwanber. Cependant, l’entreprise fait faillite et il décide de rejoindre sa tante, Betsey, à Douvres. Elle obtient sa garde après de longues négociations avec le beau père de David. Il peut désormais recevoir une éducation correcte chez l’avocat de Betsey. Grâce a l’aide de sa tante et de ses amis, David devient un écrivain a succès. Le roman est écrit à la première personne, racontant l’enfance, l’adolescence et la vie de jeune adulte de David Copperfield.
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David Copperfield: Charles Dickens (Classics, Historical, Literature) [Annotated] (English Edition) 26 juin 2022

par Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. Its full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial form during the two preceding years. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his works.

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Charles Dickens - Oeuvres complètes: Classcompilé n° 8 - [50 titres] 16 nov. 2016

par Charles Dickens

( 29 )

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Ce volume 8 contient les Oeuvres de Charles Dickens.

Charles John Huffam Dickens, né à Landport (en), près de Portsmouth, dans le Hampshire, le 7 février 1812 et mort à Gad's Hill Place à Higham dans le Kent, le 9 juin 1870, est considéré comme le plus grand romancier de l'époque victorienne. Dès ses premiers écrits, il est devenu immensément célèbre, sa popularité ne cessant de croître au fil de ses publications.

Mise à jour : Version 6, 19/11/2018. Le mystère d'Edwin Drood (Inachevé)
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Contenu du volume :

OEUVRES

ROMANS
Les Papiers posthumes du Pickwick Club
Olivier Twist
Vie et aventures de Nicolas Nickleby
Le Magasin d’antiquités
Barnabé Rudge
Vie et aventures de Martin Chuzzlewit
Dombey et fils
David Copperfield
Bleak-House
Les Temps difficiles
La Petite Dorrit
Paris et Londres en 1793
Les Grandes Espérances
Notre Ami commun
Le mystère d'Edwin Drood (Inachevé)
TRADUCTIONS ALTERNATIVES
LE NEVEU DE MA TANTE (D. COPPERFIELD)
Un conte de deux villes (Illustré)
LIVRES DE NOËL
Cantique de Noël
Les carillons
Le Grillon du foyer
La bataille de la vie
Le Possédé
TRADUCTIONS ALTERNATIVES
Les Cloches
LE grillon du foyer
HISTOIRES DE NOËL
L’arbre de Noël
Les Conteurs à la ronde
Une histoire d’écolier
Maison à louer
La Maison hantée
Un Messsage de la mer
La Terre de Tom Tiddler
Le bagage de quelqu'un (Partiel)
La maison garnie de Mrs Lirriper (Partiel)
Le legs de Mrs Lirriper (Partiel)
Le Dr Marigold (Partiel)
L’embranchement de Mugby (Partiel)
L’Abîme
ESQUISSES ET CONTES
ESQUISSES DE BOZ (Extraits)
L’HORLOGE DE MAÎTRE HUMPHREY
AUX ABOIS
L’explication de George Silverman
MÉLANGE DE PROSE
NOTES AMÉRICAINES (Extraits)
TABLEAUX D’ITALIE (Extraits)
ARTICLES DE HOUSEHOLD WORDS (Choix)
Quelques souvenirs de Thackeray
CORRESPONDANCE ET BIOGRAPHIE
Notes biographiques et correspondance de Charles Dickens
L’enfance et la jeunesse de Charles Dickens
L’Innimitable Boz
Pages choisies de Dickens
Voir aussi
Charles Dickens : Dombey and Son
Amédée Pichot, à propos de la traduction complète chez Louis Hachette

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HARD TIMES: UNABRIDGED ORIGINAL CLASSIC - ANNOTATED (English Edition) 25 juin 2022

par CHARLES DICKENS

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Hard Times was originally published in serial form, in a magazine called Household Words beginning on April 1, 1854. The last time that Dickens had published a work in serial form was in 1841 and when publication of Hard Times had begun, Dickens was barely halfway through the writing. In the end, Hard Times is among the shortest of Dickens's novels and the material was arranged so that it would "divide well"?prolonging suspense at all of the weekly conclusions.

Dickens had originally intended to take the year off, having written Bleak House the year previous but he was convinced to write Hard Times in part because the book was to improve the financial situation of the struggling magazine. The characters and major themes of the novel are little different from many of the others that are more famous. Some critics liken Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby to other "men of business" who populate Dickens's fiction: Ebenezer Scrooge, Ralph Nickleby and Mr. Dombey chief among them.

On another level, Hard Times is considered to be a revision of an earlier novella entitled The Chimes. The characters of Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby are more developed. While Coketown represents the typical manufacturing town of the English midlands, the Manchester aspects of the town come largely from the similarities between the utilitarianism espoused by Gradgrind and Bounderby and the utilitarianism expounded by the "Manchester" school of thought. Hard Times reveals Dickens' increased interest in class issues and social commentary. In contrast to the earliest work, like the more "playful" novel, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times is seen by critics as being more in line with the novels published immediately before it: Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. While Hard Times does not have the epic proportions of some of Dickens's other work, the concern for the plight of the poor and the hypocrisy of the leisure class is more explicit than it had been previously.

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Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels (English Edition) 1 avr. 2017

par Charles Dickens

( 2 148 )

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This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.

[1836-1837] The Pickwick Papers
[1837-1839] Oliver Twist
[1838-1839] Nicholas Nickleby
[1840-1841] The Old Curiosity Shop
[1841] Barnaby Rudge
[1843] Martin Chuzzlewit
[1846-1848] Dombey and Son
[1849-1850] David Copperfield
[1851-1853] Bleak House
[1854] Hard Times
[1855-1857] Little Dorrit
[1859] A Tale of Two Cities
[1860-1861] Great Expectations
[1864-1865] Our Mutual Friend
[1869-1870] The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens illustrated edition (English Edition) 18 févr. 2022

par Charles Dickens

( 548 )

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A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Carol singing took a new lease on life during this time. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.Dickens' Carol was one of the greatest influences in rejuvenating the old Christmas traditions of England, but, while it brings to the reader images of light, joy, warmth and life, it also brings strong and unforgettable images of darkness, despair, coldness, sadness, and death. Scrooge himself is the embodiment of winter, and, just as winter is followed by spring and the renewal of life, so too is Scrooge's cold, pinched heart restored to the innocent goodwill he had known in his childhood and youth. A Christmas Carol remains popular—having never been out of print—and has been adapted many times to film, stage, opera, and other media.

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A TALE OF TWO CITIES: With Original illustrations Annotated Classic edition (English Edition) 26 juin 2022

par Charles Dickens

( 1 )

3,74 €

Dickens published his twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, in his own literary journal called All the Year Round in weekly installments from April to November of 1859. He got the germ of the idea for the novel from a play by Wilkie Collins called The Frozen Deep, in which he played the self-sacrificing hero. Dickens decided to transplant the emotive issue of self-sacrifice onto the time period of the French Revolution, and he modeled Sydney Carton after Collins's hero. To ensure that his novel would be as historically accurate as possible, Dickens pored over his friend Thomas Carlyle's classic history of the French Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities is in part a historical novel, which sets it apart from Dickens's other work. Although Barnaby Rudge deals with the Gordon Riots in England, it discusses them only peripherally. In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens narrates aspects of a major historical event, the French Revolution. Because Dickens focuses on the effect of political upheaval more than on character development and wit, A Tale of Two Cities feels atypical among readers who know his other novels, and critics continue to debate its relative place in the English literary canon.

The French Revolution, which raged from 1789 to 1793, involved an overthrow of the aristocratic ruling order by the lower classes and was followed by a period of terror. The guillotine was used as a great equalizer, in that everyone from Queen Marie Antoinette to lowly peasants were beheaded by it. The Revolution at first garnered some support among radicals in England, creating a backlash among Conservatives, most notable in Edmund Burke's scathing Reflections on the Revolution in France. As the bloodshed became prolonged, support for the revolution waned in England, and a comparable social movement never started there.

When Dickens was writing A Tale of Two Cities, the French Revolution was still the most dramatic issue in the public's recent memory. The revolution involved contentious issues for Dickens, a political radical who believed in poor law reform and who campaigned for a more equal society. He vividly portrays the hunger of the French people and the brutality of the French aristocracy, embodied in the novel by the Evrémonde family, and he seems to justify the lower class's desire for a revolution. Yet, he just as dramatically illustrates the barbarity of the revolutionaries when they do rise to power.

This ambivalence is exemplified in his depiction of Madame Defarge, perhaps the most interesting of the main characters. She is ruthless in her desire for retribution against the wrongs that have been done to those of her class. Dickens indicates that Madame Defarge has good reason for her anger, but her death in a scuffle with Miss Pross at the end of the novel implies that Dickens cannot sympathize with the extent of her (or the revolutionaries') ceaseless bloodthirstiness.

Dickens's novel is built around a great and stable love story, although as he wrote, his own marriage was failing spectacularly. Dickens was unhappily married to Catherine Hogarth, and he met and fell in love with a young actress named Ellen Ternan while he was acting in Wilkie Collins's play. This situation proved to be the final disaster in his marriage, and he separated from Catherine Hogarth in 1859. This unusual split, along with some well-publicized affairs that came afterward, increased the author's' notoriety but decreased his popularity somewhat towards the end of his life.

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Les aventures de Mr Pickwick tome 1 7 juin 2017

par Charles Dickens

( 13 )

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Un beau matin de 1827, le distingué Pickwick Club de Londres décide de créer une société itinérante, afin de parcourir l'Angleterre et d'alerter ses membres sur les dangers des voyages. Persuadé qu'une telle entreprise profitera à l'humanité tout entière, le débonnaire Pickwick, homme d'affaires à la retraite et philosophe du dimanche, s'entoure pour l'épopée de trois compères aussi qualifiés que lui : Tupman, séducteur sans conquêtes, Snodgrass, poète à court de vers, et Winkle, sportsman contrarié. Leurs aventures s'annoncent aussi rebondies que le ventre de Pickwick, dont les rares colères menacent de faire éclater le gilet... Un esprit d'enfance semble régner parmi les intrépides " Pickwickiens ". Jusqu'au jour où l'innocence de ces bons vivants se voit menacée par ces trois périls que sont le mariage, la trahison et la bêtise des hommes de loi...

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Oliver Twist 30 sept. 2011

par Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol (Original 1843 Edition): Annotated (English Edition) 23 juin 2022

par Charles Dickens

( 127 )

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A Christmas Carol is one of the most famous works by English writer Charles Dickens. The novella, fully titled A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, has never been out of print since it was first published in 1843. In five chapters, or staves, it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly man who lives alone and only cares about making and hoarding his money. Through the course of three supernatural visits that occur the night of Christmas Eve, Scrooge learns the true meaning of life and Christmas.
The story opens with Ebenezer Scrooge sitting in his office. It is Christmas Eve, but he isn’t in the Christmas spirit. He is visited by his nephew Fred, but refuses the invitation to attend Christmas dinner at Fred’s house the next day. Scrooge also turns away two men looking for donations for the poor and later only grudgingly grants his employee, Bob Cratchit, the day off for Christmas to spend with his family.
When Scrooge arrives home later that evening, he senses that someone is in his house. He is visited by a ghostly specter that turns out to be his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley is wrapped in chains entwined with moneyboxes. He tells Scrooge that he is doomed to roam earth in the heavy chains as punishment for his greed.
Scrooge learns that three spirits will visit him that night and that he must listen to them to escape the same fate as Marley. If he doesn’t, he may end up bearing heavier and longer chains upon his death.
The first spirit to visit Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Past. He takes Scrooge back to the more innocent days of his youth. Scrooge witnesses his lonely childhood, but is also reminded of his love for his sister Fan (who later died after giving birth to his nephew). Scrooge and the spirit move on to his early adulthood. They stop by the holiday festivities of Scrooge’s first employer, the jovial Mr. Fezziwig, who was a kind mentor that treated Scrooge like family.
Scrooge next witnesses his younger self interacting with his then fiancée, Belle. Their relationship ended when Belle realized that Scrooge would never love her as much as he loves money. The ghost later takes Scrooge to see Belle and her large, happy family. Walking through these memories evokes a range of emotions in Scrooge. He begs the ghost to take him back to his own time and finds himself in his bed.
When the clock strikes again, the Ghost of Christmas Present visits Scrooge. After touching his robes, the ghost whisks Scrooge off to witness various households joyously preparing for Christmas. At Bob Cratchit’s modest home, he sees his employee’s family for the first time. Scrooge wants to know more about Bob’s small, happy boy who is crippled. The spirit tells him the boy is Tiny Tim, and that the boy will die if his future isn’t changed.
At the end of their journey, the spirit shows Scrooge two emaciated children called Ignorance and Want and tells him to beware them both, but especially the latter.
The final spirit to visit Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. This silent spirit takes Scrooge to the funeral place of a widely despised man. Although Scrooge is appalled at the deceased man’s treatment, the spirit is unable to show him anyone that is sad to have the man gone. Rather, his peers will only attend the funeral if lunch is provided, the man’s domestic workers steal from him to make some money, and one couple celebrates because their outstanding debt to Scrooge is now sorted.
Scrooge asks the spirit to show him someone mourned in a loving way. To his disappointment, the spirit reveals Cratchit’s family grieving the loss of Tiny Tim. Scrooge’s horror only grows as the spirit finally leads him to the grave of the despised man and he discovers his own name on the headstone.

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Oliver Twist Illustrated (English Edition) 25 juin 2022

par Charles Dickens

( 5 )

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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.[1] The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.

Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.[2] The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.[3]

In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well.

Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988

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