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When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

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Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.

Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield is a sweeping tale of resilience, growth, and self-discovery—often regarded as the author’s most personal and heartfelt work. Following the life of David from his troubled childhood to his journey toward maturity, the novel captures the struggles, joys, and moral lessons that shape him into the man he becomes. Along the way, Dickens fills the story with some of his most memorable characters: the loyal Peggotty family, the ever-optimistic Mr. Micawber, and the slyly deceitful Uriah Heep.

Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield is loosely based on the life of the author. It tells the story of David Copperfield’s life from childhood to adulthood with all of the hardships, changes, and good fortune that David encounters on his life journey. It focuses on the relationships he develops with a huge cast of characters who he meets as he travels from rags to riches and back again.

Kieran's love life didn't get off to a good start. He threw up after his first kiss; he was beaten up by the first girl to have a crush on him; and after a mix-up with his first love letter, he could only sit back and watch as the entire school mistook him for a brutal murderer. By the time the hormones kicked in, Kieran had all but given up on love, but the worst was yet to come.

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. With optimism and boundless enthusiasm, the Robinson family undertakes the extraordinary task of constructing a home for themselves and exploring the primitive island filled with strange and beautiful creatures and exotic fruits and plants.

Automne 1978, nord de la Californie. C'est l'ouverture de la chasse sur les deux cent cinquante hectares du ranch de Goat Mountain où un garçon de onze ans, son père, son grand-père et un ami de la famille se retrouvent comme chaque année pour chasser. À leur arrivée, les quatre hommes aperçoivent au loin un braconnier qu'ils observent à travers la lunette de leur fusil. Le père invite son fils à tenir l'arme et à venir regarder. Et l'irréparable se produit. De cet instant figé découle l'éternité : les instincts primitifs se mesurent aux conséquences à vie, les croyances universelles se heurtent aux résonances des tragédies.

Dashin grew up on a harsh desert world, always the youngest, always alone. When the chance for adventure finally came, he signed onto a mining ship to prospect uncharted space. But his search for freedom ends in disaster when he crash-lands on a lush jungle planet and wakes in a treetop village among a people unlike any he has ever known—some of whom wield gifts that defy logic. He is thrust into a series of ritual trials, deadly ones he’s entirely untrained for, even before the attempts on his life begin.

David Copperfield war Charles Dickens der liebste Roman, es ist auch sein persönlichster. Das Buch hat Generationen von Lesenden in seinen Bann geschlagen, vielen war und ist es prägende Jugendlektüre, große Autorinnen und Autoren – Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elias Canetti – verehrten ihn ein Leben lang. Es ist zunächst eine Leidensgeschichte im viktorianischen England. Nach dem Tod des Vaters geboren und nach einer unseligen Neuvermählung der Mutter muss der junge David eine höllenhafte Schulzeit durchleiden, wird bereits als Zehnjähriger zur Arbeit gezwungen.

Un alternarsi di emozioni, di colpi di scena, un grande romanzo in cui si ride, si piange, e si riflette.La storia di un giovane che troverà il vero amore, dopo errori e delusioni.La parte in cui è ritratta la giurisprudenza dell’epoca è a dir poco un romanzo nel romanzo.Uno fra i più bei romanzi dell’800 e dei nostri tempi. Musiche originali di Ivan Genesio.

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David Copperfield es el octavo libro escrito por Charles Dickens, narrada por su protagonista, quien detalla sus aventuras en su viaje de la infancia a la madurez. Muchos elementos de la novela hacen referencia a la propia vida de Dickens, siendo probablemente la más autobiográfica de todas sus obras. Así también, el mismo Dickens señaló en un prólogo de la novela "de todos mis libros, éste es el que más me gusta", y luego "como muchos padres, tengo un hijo preferido, un hijo que es mi debilidad; este hijo se llama David Copperfield

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István, fünfzehn, lebt mit seiner Mutter in einem Plattenbauviertel am Rande einer ungarischen Stadt. Als sich aus der widerwilligen Bekanntschaft zu einer Nachbarin im Alter seiner Mutter eine sexuelle Beziehung entwickelt, die István selbst kaum begreift, gerät sein Leben außer Kontrolle. Ein Unfall ereignet sich, ein Mann stirbt. Die Jahre, die folgen, führen István von Ungarn nach London, wo er sich von Job zu Job hangelt und wo jede Abzweigung, die er nimmt, bestimmt ist von den guten oder eigennützigen Absichten Fremder.

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On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Alice should be celebrating. She can finally vote, she’s almost finished high school in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, and her family and twin brother, Alistair, have thrown a party to remember. But beneath her smile, Alice hides a growing fear—she might be pregnant. As a young witch, she knows there are ways to handle such things. She vows to stay away from Johnny Ackersly, her charming but reckless boyfriend, and plans to brew a tea that will bring her body back into balance. Then Johnny gives her a gift—a necklace strung with ruby-red beads.

En Sonolibro hemos adaptado la obra original de Dickens, abreviando sus 650 páginas hasta hacerla plenamente asequible en un Audiolibro en tres capítulos con un total de cinco horas de grabación totalmente dramatizada. David Copperfield, se dice que es la obra más autobiográfica de Dickens y los personajes que interactúan en la misma están completamente vivos: El Sr. Murdstone, el padrastro sin escrúpulos; El Sr. Micawber, optimista empedernido; Pegotty, con su amor maternal hacia David; La Sta Betsie, que consigue superar su matrimonio frustrado....

נונו הוא בנו של איש משטרה בכיר. אמו מתה כשהיה תינוק, והנפש הקרובה אליו ביותר היא גַבִּי, מזכירתו וחברתו של אביו. בתחילת הסיפור הוא עולה על הרכבת בירושלים ונוסע לביקור משפחתי בחיפה. הוא לא יגיע לשם. בדרכו הוא יקלע ל"חטיפה" ולמסע של פשעים קטנים וגדולים, מטורפים ואביריים, בעוד הוא נמלט מן המשטרה המחפשת אחריו. במהלך המאורעות המתעתעים ייחשף בפניו הסיפור האמיתי של הוריו ושלו, והסיפור הזה ישלח אותו הלאה, אל תוך ההרפתקה המסעירה של גילוי עצמו וגורלו.

Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks odd questions about faith and time, and sees through conventions others take for granted. Seeking to be true to herself, she hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs. In distant Tibet, another life unfolds as remote from Evelyn’s as can be: the life of a boy named Tsering, raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet, who eventually becomes a high lama.