Name: Cuentos de Navidad / A Christmas Carol (in Spanish)
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Author: Charles Dickens

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Cuentos de Navidad / A Christmas Carol (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Literatura Random House

Collection

Grandes Clásicos

Year

2016

Language

Spanish

Pages

528

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.7x15 cm

ISBN13

9788439731665

Edited in

España

Edition No.

001

Synopsis "Cuentos de Navidad / A Christmas Carol (in Spanish)"

Un volumen con todos los relatos navideños de Charles Dickens, incluido el célebre «Canción de Navidad . Traducción de Nuria Salinas Introducción de Michael Slater, profesor de la Universidad de Londres Se ha dicho que Charles Dickens inventó la celebración de la Navidad tal y como la conocemos, y tal vez ningún otro escritor ha evocado con tanta maestría el espíritu a la vez jubiloso y elegíaco de esa fecha. Inspirado en la edición inglesa de 1852, el presente volumen reúne el célebre «Canción de Navidad y otros cuatro relatos de ambientación navideña: «Las campanas , «El Grillo del Hogar , «La batalla de la vida y «El hechizado . En todos ellos destacan los temas principales del universo dickensiano: la caridad, la infancia, las leyendas populares, las desigualdades sociales, los sueños y la redención personal. Además de la cuidada traducción de Nuria Salinas, esta edición incluye la introducción de Michael Slater, catedrático emérito de literatura victoriana en Birkbeck College de la Universidad de Londres y uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en la vida y la obra del autor inglés. Gracias a sus notas, la belleza de una obra de ficción imprescindible llega acompañada del conocimiento preciso de toda una época. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A volume with all of Charles Dickens' Christmas tales, including the famous "Christmas Carol." Translated by Nuria Salinas. Introduction by Michael Slater, London University professor. It has been said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas as we know it, and maybe no other writer has evoked the all-at-once joyous and elegiac spirit of the season so masterfully. Inspired in the 1852 English edition, this volume features the famous "Christmas Carol" and another four stories set around Christmas time: "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man." All of them highlight the main themes in Dickens universe: charity, childhood, folktales, social inequality, dreams, and personal redemption. In addition to Nuria Salinas' careful translation, this edition includes Michael Slater's introduction, professor emeritus of Victorian literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and one of the greatest world experts in the life and works of the English author. With his notes, the beauty of this essential work of fiction is accompanied by detailed knowledge of an entire era.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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