La casa dei fantasmi. Testo inglese a fronte

Not so 'classic' Charles Dickens Sad to say, this was my first experience with reading Dickens. Might have been better to have read one of his more famous tales as he has, to this day, quite the reputation of being a great writer of the Victorian Era. This novella, compiled by him and edited by him, Leggi tutto

vallahi beni çok şaşırtan bir kitap oldu çünkü edgar allen poe tarzı, ne bileyim a christmas carol tarzı öyküler okuyacağımı sanırken bayağı psikolojik öyküler okudum. charles dickens’ın yayın yönetmeni olduğu all the year round dergisinin 1859 noel özel sayısı için kaleme alınan bu öyküler bence ça Leggi tutto

One of Dickens Christmas collaborations featuring Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Proctor and two I am not familiar with Hesba Stretton a.k.a. Sarah Smith and George Sala. I have only read one other of these types of work which was A House to Let and that work seemed a bit

Charles Dickens is often credited with having “invented” Christmas as we know it. This claim might be exaggerated (as is argued here ), but one can hardly contest the fact that his “Christmas novels” are a major contribution not only to the literature of this feast, but also to what might be termed i Leggi tutto

Yazarın kendi hayatından etkilenerek yazdığı öykü tarzında bir oturuşta okunabilecek hoş bir kitap. Klasik perili ev hikayelerinden ayrılan pek bir yönü yok ama yazarın kalemi kitabı okumak için iyi bir etken. Yine de kitap ne güzel ne kötü denebilecek orta kıvamda bir eser. :)

3.5 Really enjoyed Dickens', Collins' and Gaskell's stories. The others not as much.