Name: Los Carillones. Una Historia de los Duendes de los Carillones que Tocan Entre el año Viejo y el año Nuevo (Bárbaros) (in Spanish)
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Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9788492979561

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Los Carillones. Una Historia de los Duendes de los Carillones que Tocan Entre el año Viejo y el año Nuevo (Bárbaros) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Barataria

Year

2013

Language

Spanish

Pages

180

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788492979561

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Los Carillones. Una Historia de los Duendes de los Carillones que Tocan Entre el año Viejo y el año Nuevo (Bárbaros) (in Spanish)"

En Los carillones, Trotty, apodo de Toby Veck, es un pobre hombre que para salir adelante entrega paquetes en cualquier punto de Londres. Toby padecerá una extraordinaria e irracional experiencia la noche del 31 diciembre a los pies del campanario de la iglesia, donde suele pasar sus jornadas a la espera de alguna entrega. Su encuentro con William Fern y con la pequeña Lilian lo inducirá a viajar al pasado, al presente y al futuro a cada nuevo toque de los carillones del campanario. Verá su presente pobreza, las expectativas que tenía para su familia cuando era joven, y la penuria en la que vive su adorada hija Meg. Verá que de las míseras condiciones de ésta y de su novio sólo se pueden esperar calamidades. Trotty verá a su pobre hija viuda y envejecida trabajando sin descanso. Decide intervenir para evitar ese matrimonio. Todo se aclara en el último cuarto de las campanadas de medianoche, cuando Trotty despierta de las pesadillas causadas por una indigestión de callos. Comprende que lo mejor que puede desear para Meg es la felicidad que tuvo él mismo con su esposa.

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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