Charles Dickens

Cuento De Navidad 1843 Charles Dickens

Publisher Marketing: Este libro narra la inquietante noche que en la vispera de esta festividad pasa Ebenezer Scrooge, un anciano miserable y tacano que es una de las mas acabadas representaciones del avaro en la historia de la literatura y otro de los inolvidables personajes de la amplia galeria de Dickens. La visita del espectro de su antiguo socio, Jacob Marley, hace desfilar ante Scrooge la vision de los espiritus de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras intentando conmover su corazon. Algo va a cambiar. Con este tierno relato, el autor se propuso remover las conciencias de sus lectores y convencerlos de la necesidad de ser bondadosos y de practicar la caridad en un mundo injusto. La caricatura, la inquietud social y el sentimiento conseguidos por Charles Dickens en esta narracion, hacen que mantenga intacta aun hoy su capacidad para conmover y hacer disfrutar." Contributor Bio:  Dickens, Charles Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation, but also the horror of the infamous debtors prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and slave factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.