Charles Dickens

Penguin Christmas Classics 6-Volume Boxed Set

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An attractive boxed set of the beloved hardcover Penguin Christmas Classics, which have given us much of what we love about the holiday itself; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Christmas At Thompson Hall & Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope, The Life & Adventures Of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, A Merry Christmas & Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott, The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol, and The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Trollope, Anthony / Baum, L. Frank / Alcott, Louisa May / Gogol, Nikolay / Hoffmann, E.T.A.

ISBN: 978-0-14-312978-3
EAN: 9780143129783
Produktnummer: 19500382
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 600 S.
Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.9 cm x D10.1 cm 1'364 g
Gewicht: 1364

Über den Autor

Charles Dickens (Author) Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His many books include Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol.Anthony Trollope (Author) Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which Barchester Towers is the second volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of the distinctive British pillar box.L. Frank Baum (Author) Frank L. Baum (1856-1919) was born in New York. He enjoyed making up stories, particularly for his own children. The Wizard of Oz, based on their favourite bedtime story about a land of Oz, was published in 1900 and it immediately became a huge international success. He wrote several sequels and numerous other kinds of books under a pseudonym.Louisa May Alcott (Author) Louisa May Alcott (1832-88) was brought up in Pennsylvania, USA. She turned to writing in order to supplement the family income and had many short stories published in magazines and newspapers. Then, in 1862, during the height of the American Civil War, Louisa went to Georgetown to work as a nurse, but she contracted typhoid. Out of her experiences she wrote Hospital Sketches (1864) which won wide acclaim, followed by an adult novel, Moods.She was reluctant to write a children's book but then realized that in herself and her three sisters she had the perfect models. The result was Little Women (1868) which became the earliest American children's novel to become a classicNikolay Gogol (Author) Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol's experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.