Charles Dickens - Thrillers 2

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!' Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger ……続きを見る

The final, unfinished novel of Charles Dickens that is in many ways his most intriguingーa gripping, haunting masterpiece that foreshadows the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish no……続きを見る

Originally published as a serial in “Master Humphrey's Clock” between 1840–1841, Dickens historical novel “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty” is mainly set during the Gordon Riots of 1780……続きを見る

Dickens war bereits früh fasziniert von der modernen Londoner Polizeiarbeit. Seine Erkenntnisse schrieb er in diesen Geschichten nieder. Sie spiegeln nicht nur das Verhältnis von Polizei und Verbrec……続きを見る

Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however u……続きを見る

The Haunted House is a short story written by Charles Dickens and five other British authors. The story was published in 1859 in Dickens' periodical All the Year Round. 続きを見る

Le Conte de deux cités, de son titre original A Tale of two Cities, est le second roman historique de Charles Dickens, rédigé en 1859. Le récit commence en 1775, alors que Jarvis Lorry, employé de l……続きを見る

Le roman a pour pivot l’affaire Jarndyce and Jarndyce (« Jarndyce contre Jarndyce ») instruite par la Chancellerie. De l’affaire elle-même, tout ce qui est dit est qu’elle concerne un gros héritage ……続きを見る

"Little Dorrit" is a novel written by Charles Dickens, published serially from 1855 to 1857 and in book form in 1857. The novel attacks the injustices of the contemporary English legal system, parti……続きを見る

"Tiempos difíciles" es una novela escrita en el siglo XIX (1854), época en la que priman las ideas realistas y en la que comienzan una serie de pinceladas en la novela histórica y de la época denomi……続きを見る

On New Year's Eve, Trotty, a poor elderly "ticket-porter" or casual messenger, is filled with gloom at the reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers, and wonders whether the working classes ……続きを見る

"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, published posthumously in 1870. Only 6 of the 12 projected parts had been completed by the time of Dickens’s death. Although D……続きを見る

"Bleak House" is a satirical story written by Charles Dickens in 1853 and considered to be among the his best work. "Bleak House" is the story of the Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to inherit mon……続きを見る

Publicada por entregas en 1841 en el semanario Master Humphrey“s Clock, "Barnaby Rudge" es calificada habitualmente como una de la dos novelas históricas escritas por Dickens, pero es sobre todo una……続きを見る

First published in instalments from February to November of 1841 in the magazine Master Humphrey’s Clock, "Barnaby Rudge" was the 5th novel by Charles Dickens. This work was one of only two historic……続きを見る

“George Silverman's Explanation”, published in instalments from January to March 1868, was one of the last pieces of fiction written by Charles Dickens, two years before his death. Silverman is born……続きを見る

Though best known for his heartwarming holiday tales and sweeping social novels such as A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was always willing to e……続きを見る

Beautifully Designed Literary Classic Rich in Drama, Romance and Heroics “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” is how Dickens' most famous work of historical fiction opens. One of t……続きを見る

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Both are heinous and most unlikely to gather any sympathy for the actual act itself from anyone, whatever the circumstances or the reasons. Whether as a crime of ……続きを見る

More than twenty successive months, Charles Dickens captivated perusers with his regularly scheduled payments of the clever Bleak House, an intricate and convincing depiction of the English legal fr……続きを見る

First published in 1854,"Hard Times", the shortest of Charles Dickens’s full-length novels but one of his best, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule ……続きを見る