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portada La Casa Lúgubre (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Collection
Penguin Clásicos
Year
2016
Language
Spanish
Pages
1072
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19x12.5 cm
ISBN13
9788491052036
Edited in
España
Edition No.
001

La Casa Lúgubre (in Spanish)

Charles Dickens (Author) · Penguin Clasicos · Paperback

La Casa Lúgubre (in Spanish) - Charles Dickens

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Synopsis "La Casa Lúgubre (in Spanish)"

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «No dejaré de seguir el camino que he seguido siempre. No tengo más que uno y no puedo escoger.» Con La Casa lúgubre, Dickens afianzó su reputación de novelista serio a la par que de maestro del efecto cómico, presentando un relato que tiene tanto de historia de misterio como de crítica a una sociedad caracterizada por su estricta indiferencia. En un experimento creativo inusitado, el autor reparte el hilo de la narración entre Esther Summerson, quien conforma un peculiar perfil psicológico, y el narrador anónimo cuya perspectiva complementa y en ocasiones cuestiona la de la protagonista. La tarea de edición de Juan Camargo se complementa con la extraordinaria traducción de Alberto Reyes en un esfuerzo por presentar al lector la más fiel versión de la novela. Asimismo, la introducción del genial escritor G. K. Chesterton rinde merecido homenaje a uno de los mayores logros de Dickens. G.K. Cherterton dijo...«Quizá sea su mejor novela. Cuando Dickens la escribió, había madurado.»
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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Carmen Valenzuela Solar Monday, July 01, 2024
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Importante poner el traductor del libro Esta edición muy mal traducida es un libro para gozar y no sufrir

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Ebert Calzada Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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Es de los mejores libros de Dickens, puede que incluso sea el mejor.

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Stiven Vidal Bonilla Monday, September 07, 2026
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A opinión de Chesterton, esta novela representa la madurez literaria de Dickens. No puedo estar más de acuerdo con esta afirmación. Es una obra maestra, con grandes ecos kafkianos. De alguna manera, la novela es uno de sus precursores.

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Carlos Murillo Thursday, October 08, 2026

La Casa Lúgubre (La Casa Desolada) Charles Dickens Penguin Clasicos Páginas: 1072 Traducción: Alberto Reyes Obra extensa, agradable de lectura fluida, llena de pasiones humanas, de amor y de maldad, de codicia y filantropía, de odios e insensibilidad... Obra con misterios, muertes, asesinatos con tantos enredos que se van descubriendo de a poco y te mantienen atrapado hasta el final. Sin duda una obra recomendada para lectores que gusten de su extensión, incluso hasta la recomendaría en versiones resumidas para iniciar a pequeños lectores en este fascinante mundo. La obra gira sobre dos ejes, con muchas trabas secundarias que desembocan en el descubrimiento de secretos que animan las trampas principales pero todas amenas, todas te cautivan. Finalmente importante resaltar que el traductor conserva en parte la narración picaresca del autor pero también se presentan algunos errores de traducción que no afectan el fondo del asunto pero si la picardia del mensaje. Muy recomendado

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David Carpio Herrera Saturday, March 30, 2024

¡Otra novela Cumbre de la literatura universal!

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