Category: Author Charles Dickens

Brave and generous friend, will you let me ask you one last question? I am very ignorant, and it troubles me—just a little. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 6 Will you never understand that I am incorrigible? Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 6 I am saying nothing. Charles Dickens A Tale…

Is Oliver a-bed? I want to speak to him,’ was his first remark as they descended the stairs. ‘Hours ago,’ replied the Dodger, throwing open a door. ‘Here he is!’ The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,…

Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 8 Do you…

Se descorrieron esas cortinas y Scrooge, sobresaltado, se incorporó a medias, encontrándose cara a cara con el sobrenatural personaje, tan cerca de él como yo lo estoy de ti, querido lector. Y cuenta que espiritualmente estoy a tu lado. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 1 Confieso que me habría gustado gozar de las alegres libertades…

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 23 People like us don’t go out at night cause people like them see us for what…

But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 The mad joy over the…

Having made, at least, this one hit, whatever it might prove to be worth, and no customers coming in to help him to any other, Mr. Barsad paid for what he had drunk, and took his leave: taking occasion to say, in a genteel manner, before he departed, that he looked forward to the pleasure…

I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road—assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. “He may come close; there’s nothing wrong. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 Scanty and…

There were tears in the eye of the gentle girl, as these words were spoken; and when one fell upon the flower over which she bent, and glistened brightly in its cup, making it more beautiful, it seemed as though the outpouring of her fresh young heart, claimed kindred with the loveliest things in nature.…

The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 5 The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 5 El recuerdo de lo que…