The Haunted Man and the Ghost s Bargain

Предлагаем вниманию читателей рождественскую повесть классика английской и мировой литературы Ч. Диккенса "Сверчок за очагом" В большом уютном доме, где все проникнуто согласием и любовью, неожиданно появляется некий загадочный странник. В дом его привел сам хозяин - почтовый возчик Джон, подобравший промерзшего старика на дороге. В доме поселилась тревога. Чувствуют ее и прелестная хозяйка Мэри, которую муж называет Крошкой, и юная нянька Тилли, и невидимый для всех, но постоянно присутствующий...

Предлагаем вниманию читателей повесть классика английской и мировой литературы Ч. Диккенса "Колокола". Рассыльный Тоби Векк и его красавица дочь живут бедно, но весело. Оба они любят слушать колокольный звон близлежащей церкви. Отец различает "голоса" всех колоколов. Как-то под новый год, когда дочь готовилась к свадьбе, ему показалось, что колокола звонят как-то неправильно... Оригинальный текст снабжен комментариями и словарем. Книга адресована студентам языковых вузов и всем любителям...

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Martin Cbuzzlewit is his sixth novel. The story involves the escape of a young boy from imminent danger, and portrays the terrified child's point of view throughout his traumatic experiences. It also contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters. There is the seedy but charming schemer Montague Tigg, and his associate Chevy Slyme, the eccentrically fey and colourfully attired barber, the buxom goodhearted...

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. The Life and Adventures of Martin Cbuzzlewit is his sixth novel. The story involves the escape of a young boy from imminent danger, and portrays the terrified child's point of view throughout his traumatic experiences. It also contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters. There is the seedy but charming schemer Montague Tigg, and his associate Chevy Slyme, the eccentrically fey and colourfully attired barber, the buxom goodhearted...

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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the...