Name: El Guardavia y Otros Cuentos de Miedo (in Spanish)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9788491042150

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El Guardavia y Otros Cuentos de Miedo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Alianza Editorial

Collection

El libro de bolsillo - Literatura

Year

2016

Language

Spanish

Pages

344

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.00 x 12.00

ISBN13

9788491042150

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El Guardavia y Otros Cuentos de Miedo (in Spanish)"

Al igual que otros escritores de su tiempo, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) no fue ajeno al gran interés que despertaron en su época el espiritismo y los fenómenos sobrenaturales relacionados con el más allá. Fruto de ello fueron varios cuentos que tienen como fondo la atmósfera lúgubre, misteriosa, escalofriante y, a veces, terrorífica propia de este mundo crepuscular, protagonizados por personajes o espíritus inquietantes o siniestros. " El guardavía y otros cuentos de miedo " reúne los relatos más renombrados y brillantes de esta parcela de la obra de Dickens en una recopilación que entusiasmará tanto a los amantes del género como a los de este autor formidable. Traducción de Miguel Ángel Pérez Pérez

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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