Una preciosa historia adaptada para que los jóvenes lectores puedan disfrutar de la genial obra del británico Charles Dickens. En esta novela, el autor critica la existencia de las llamadas cárceles de deudores. Allí se encerraba a los que no pagaban sus deudas (a menudo junto con toda su familia, como fue el caso de Dickens). El novelista hizo un retrato tan certero de Londres y las pésimas condiciones de vida de los grupos sociales desfavorecidos que consiguió movilizar a la opinión pública.
En un Londres neblinoso y enfangado, un pleito se eterniza en el decadente Tribunal de la Cancillería. La anquilosada maquinaria judicial asiste al paso de generaciones, al suicidio o al enloquecimiento de algunos querellantes, al enmohecimiento de las posesiones y a la ruina material o espiritual de incontables individuos con una impasibilidad que llega a lo cruel. Esther Summerson, Ada Clare y Richard Carstone serán los jóvenes elegidos que, junto a su bienhechor John Jarndyce, habrán de ver el final de tan absurda acción jurídica. Pero antes de alcanzar esta resolución sucederán numerosas y dispares aventuras: de lo cómico a lo trágico pasando por lo melodramático y lo policíaco, un universo de singulares personajes iniciarán y entrecruzarán sus trayectorias, crecerán y, en algunos casos, morirán en el seno de este mundo jerarquizado y monstruoso. 'Casa Desolada' alterna el humor y la gravedad gracias a un Dickens que logra en estas páginas momentos inolvidables. Los juegos y las trampas de la intriga policial garantizan una enfebrecida lectura repleta de sobresaltos y sorpresas. Como acertadamente subrayó Vladimir Nabokov, en unas páginas entusiásticas, ?todo lo que tenéis que hacer al leer 'Casa Desolada' es relajaros y dejar que sea vuestra espina dorsal la que domine?.
La narrativa navideña de Charles Dickens, una delicia de uno de los nombres propios de las letras inglesas, en edición conmemorativa por el centésimo septuagésimo quinto aniversario de su publicación. Sin lugar a dudas, Ebenezer Scrooge es, junto a Oliver Twist, el personaje más célebre de Charles Dickens. La vista de los fantasmas del pasado, el presente y el futuro de este viejo avaro y codicioso que «extorsionaba, tergiversaba, usurpaba, rebañaba y arrebataba» se ha convertido en todo un mito profundamente arraigado de la Navidad. El encanto imperecedero de la historia de Scrooge, se halla en una reivindicación social al más puro estilo dickensiano con tintes de humor y una profunda comprensión de la naturaleza humana.
Ideal for advanced, confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...
Ideal for advanced, confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...
Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn?t like people. He really doesn?t like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
When his father dies a poor man, Nicholas Nickleby goes to London with his mother and sister, Kate. He hopes for help from his rich Uncle Ralph. But Ralph Nickleby is only interested in making money. So Nicholas takes a teaching job at Dotheboys Hall - a terrible school belonging to Mr Wackford Squeers. There he helps a poor boy called Smike who has no one to look after him. Leaving Dotheboys, Nicholas makes both friends and enemies on his journey towards better things. But will Smike, who travels with him, ever find the happy family life that he so dearly wants?
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.
Ideal for confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David.Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and david is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hands. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him.As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble and misery and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship ... and love.
El senyor Scrooge és un home avar i solitari. No pot suportar el Nadal i tot el que significa: trobades familiars, regals, festes... Però aquest any una visita inesperada la vigília de Nadal li farà obrir els ulls i l'invitarà a canviar d'actitud.
Una preciosa historia adaptada para que los jóvenes lectores puedan disfrutar de la genial obra del británico Charles Dickens. En esta novela, el autor critica la existencia de las llamadas cárceles de deudores. Allí se encerraba a los que no pagaban sus deudas (a menudo junto con toda su familia, como fue el caso de Dickens). El novelista hizo un retrato tan certero de Londres y las pésimas condiciones de vida de los grupos sociales desfavorecidos que consiguió movilizar a la opinión pública.
En un Londres neblinoso y enfangado, un pleito se eterniza en el decadente Tribunal de la Cancillería. La anquilosada maquinaria judicial asiste al paso de generaciones, al suicidio o al enloquecimiento de algunos querellantes, al enmohecimiento de las posesiones y a la ruina material o espiritual de incontables individuos con una impasibilidad que llega a lo cruel. Esther Summerson, Ada Clare y Richard Carstone serán los jóvenes elegidos que, junto a su bienhechor John Jarndyce, habrán de ver el final de tan absurda acción jurídica. Pero antes de alcanzar esta resolución sucederán numerosas y dispares aventuras: de lo cómico a lo trágico pasando por lo melodramático y lo policíaco, un universo de singulares personajes iniciarán y entrecruzarán sus trayectorias, crecerán y, en algunos casos, morirán en el seno de este mundo jerarquizado y monstruoso. 'Casa Desolada' alterna el humor y la gravedad gracias a un Dickens que logra en estas páginas momentos inolvidables. Los juegos y las trampas de la intriga policial garantizan una enfebrecida lectura repleta de sobresaltos y sorpresas. Como acertadamente subrayó Vladimir Nabokov, en unas páginas entusiásticas, ?todo lo que tenéis que hacer al leer 'Casa Desolada' es relajaros y dejar que sea vuestra espina dorsal la que domine?.
La narrativa navideña de Charles Dickens, una delicia de uno de los nombres propios de las letras inglesas, en edición conmemorativa por el centésimo septuagésimo quinto aniversario de su publicación. Sin lugar a dudas, Ebenezer Scrooge es, junto a Oliver Twist, el personaje más célebre de Charles Dickens. La vista de los fantasmas del pasado, el presente y el futuro de este viejo avaro y codicioso que «extorsionaba, tergiversaba, usurpaba, rebañaba y arrebataba» se ha convertido en todo un mito profundamente arraigado de la Navidad. El encanto imperecedero de la historia de Scrooge, se halla en una reivindicación social al más puro estilo dickensiano con tintes de humor y una profunda comprensión de la naturaleza humana.
Ideal for advanced, confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...
Ideal for advanced, confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...
Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn?t like people. He really doesn?t like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
When his father dies a poor man, Nicholas Nickleby goes to London with his mother and sister, Kate. He hopes for help from his rich Uncle Ralph. But Ralph Nickleby is only interested in making money. So Nicholas takes a teaching job at Dotheboys Hall - a terrible school belonging to Mr Wackford Squeers. There he helps a poor boy called Smike who has no one to look after him. Leaving Dotheboys, Nicholas makes both friends and enemies on his journey towards better things. But will Smike, who travels with him, ever find the happy family life that he so dearly wants?
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.' The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.
Ideal for confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David.Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and david is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hands. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him.As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble and misery and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship ... and love.
El senyor Scrooge és un home avar i solitari. No pot suportar el Nadal i tot el que significa: trobades familiars, regals, festes... Però aquest any una visita inesperada la vigília de Nadal li farà obrir els ulls i l'invitarà a canviar d'actitud.