Charles Dickens

The tale begins on Christmas Eve in the 1840's, exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave as a greedy and stingy businessman, who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change h...

A TALE OF TWO CITIESAs an example of Dickens's literary work, A Tale of Two Cities is not wrongly named. It is his most typical contact with the civic ideals of Europe. All his other tales have been tales of one city. He was in spirit a Cockney; though that title has been quite unreasonably twisted to mean a cad. By the old sound and proverbial ...

Como mi apellido es Pirrip y mi nombre de pila Felipe, mi lengua infantil, al querer pronunciar ambos nombres, no fue capaz de decir nada más largo ni más explícito que Pip. Por consiguiente, yo mismo me llamaba Pip, y por Pip fui conocido en adelante ...