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mariana_ag1997's review against another edition
4.0
Reseña pendiente.
Hasta el momento de este compilado tengo dos favoritos: canción de navidad y el grillo del hogar.
Hasta el momento de este compilado tengo dos favoritos: canción de navidad y el grillo del hogar.
magratajostiernos's review against another edition
3.0
Como suele ser habitual en este tipo de colección de cuentos, los hay que me han parecido más especiales que otros. Mis preferidos sin duda «La cena de Navidad» de Nathaniel Hawthorne y «El gigante egoísta» de Oscar Wilde.
A destacar que trae varios cuentos clásicos de los Grimm y Andersen que resultan muy adecuados para estas fechas.
A destacar que trae varios cuentos clásicos de los Grimm y Andersen que resultan muy adecuados para estas fechas.
miss_literaria's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Una recopilación de cuentos navideños, que van desde los que tocan tu corazón, que te hacen reír y otros un tanto aburridos.
Todos tienen el mismo fin de evocar los sentimientos que suelen surgir en esta época navideña y que no debemos olvidar.
Todos tienen el mismo fin de evocar los sentimientos que suelen surgir en esta época navideña y que no debemos olvidar.
avialia's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
This is some of the stories by charles dickens. It contains
- A chrismas carol: This is a story many are fammiliar with, me included. I myself have never read this before. But I did enjoy the story and it was to my expectations.
- The chimes: This was personally a story I have not once before read. I enjoyed the story. || Dickens also here shows the point of the poor and where the rich are cruel and belive the poor can only be evil and such. So it is quite gloomy and I would not disgribe it as a story being read for lighthearted purposes ||
- The cricket of the heart: The story is about John Peerybingle and his wife. They live with their baby and the baby’s nanny. There is also some connections to the previous stories here. Not sure if it was done intensionally tho. I did feel that this story took a little longer to get into than the two previous ones.
- The battle of life: This story is not as much resolved around chrismas (even tho it is the chrismas season) and so has way less chrismas feeling when reading it. The story is about two sisters. || The youngest was in love with him and he left for a few years, after that the man comes back. There is another man aswell wh was avced to leave the city and so he brings this youngest sister with hm and leave during the party for Alfred (man that just cae home). In the youngest sisters adsence the biggest take its shot as she also liked Alfred||. For me this story honestly was not the most exiting for me. And I am not sure how much I liked it
- The haunted man: The story about a chemist, and lecturer in the subject, Mr Redlaw whose home and teaching establishment occupies part of an old educational building in a somewhat poor and rundown part of London. It is a typical 'Be careful what you wish for' kind of story.
So to rewiev the whole book as a whole, || I in general enjoyed reading this book. I did however did not feel it was a spectacular read. The writes was how one might expect but I did not struggel to understand. Dickens is really good at writing disriptions and you really can live in the writing.||
Overall: 3/5
- A chrismas carol: This is a story many are fammiliar with, me included. I myself have never read this before. But I did enjoy the story and it was to my expectations.
- The chimes: This was personally a story I have not once before read. I enjoyed the story. || Dickens also here shows the point of the poor and where the rich are cruel and belive the poor can only be evil and such. So it is quite gloomy and I would not disgribe it as a story being read for lighthearted purposes ||
- The cricket of the heart: The story is about John Peerybingle and his wife. They live with their baby and the baby’s nanny. There is also some connections to the previous stories here. Not sure if it was done intensionally tho. I did feel that this story took a little longer to get into than the two previous ones.
- The battle of life: This story is not as much resolved around chrismas (even tho it is the chrismas season) and so has way less chrismas feeling when reading it. The story is about two sisters. || The youngest was in love with him and he left for a few years, after that the man comes back. There is another man aswell wh was avced to leave the city and so he brings this youngest sister with hm and leave during the party for Alfred (man that just cae home). In the youngest sisters adsence the biggest take its shot as she also liked Alfred||. For me this story honestly was not the most exiting for me. And I am not sure how much I liked it
- The haunted man: The story about a chemist, and lecturer in the subject, Mr Redlaw whose home and teaching establishment occupies part of an old educational building in a somewhat poor and rundown part of London. It is a typical 'Be careful what you wish for' kind of story.
So to rewiev the whole book as a whole, || I in general enjoyed reading this book. I did however did not feel it was a spectacular read. The writes was how one might expect but I did not struggel to understand. Dickens is really good at writing disriptions and you really can live in the writing.||
Overall: 3/5
bookbirder's review against another edition
1.0
This book has literally taken months to get through, though to be fair I did take (much-needed) breaks in that time. Dickens is excellent at finishing a book well (therefore making me want to leave a good review and read another) and I did highly enjoy the last short story No Thoroughfare (the only co-written one, interestingly).
As I have found this pattern before when reading Dickens’ work, I was hoping the short stories would be perfect at keeping to the point while still showing off the famous literary skills of Charles Dickens. Unfortunately, it was the opposite, and I mostly got the long setting of the scene without much of a plot.
I have also noticed that Dickens’ books have not all stood the test of time, in terms of offensive language or stereotypes. If you ignore my advice and read some of these short stories, don’t read those from the point of view of Mrs. Lirriper, who presumably thinks in a way that Dickens considered most women to think.
For the record, I don’t regret reading any of Dickens’ work. I just wish I’d read fewer or spaced them out more. I think I know the pattern now, so do not plan on reading another for many years, if ever.
As I have found this pattern before when reading Dickens’ work, I was hoping the short stories would be perfect at keeping to the point while still showing off the famous literary skills of Charles Dickens. Unfortunately, it was the opposite, and I mostly got the long setting of the scene without much of a plot.
I have also noticed that Dickens’ books have not all stood the test of time, in terms of offensive language or stereotypes. If you ignore my advice and read some of these short stories, don’t read those from the point of view of Mrs. Lirriper, who presumably thinks in a way that Dickens considered most women to think.
For the record, I don’t regret reading any of Dickens’ work. I just wish I’d read fewer or spaced them out more. I think I know the pattern now, so do not plan on reading another for many years, if ever.
entrescritos_ynovelas's review against another edition
4.0
Me ha parecido un libro muy acertado para leer en las Navidades. En esta maravillosa edición ilustrada de Alma editorial podemos encontrar el famoso cuento de Charles Dickens “Canción de Navidad” o relatos cortos de Saki entre otros. En general es una lectura algo más densa que otros libros de esta época del año por la prosa que se usa a la hora de describir los lugares o los diálogos, pero es algo normal teniendo en cuenta que fueron escritos entre el 1880 y el 1920. Sí que es cierto que algunos relatos me han parecido más flojos que otros, pero en general es un libro que voy a preservar e intentar leer por Navidad.
salo1996's review against another edition
3.0
"E eram olhos belos... Olhos daqueles que dizem tantas coisas ao pensamento; olhos negros que reflectiam os olhos que os queriam sondar; não desses olhos que nos ofuscam com o seu brilho, mas dos que brilham com um esplendor calmo e claro, puro e suave, emanação de luz nascida no céu; olhos que eram belos e verdadeiros; olhos raduosos de esperanca, de um esperança jovem e fresca, viva e ardente, apesar dos vinte anos de trabalho e de pobreza, cujas provações tinham visto. Toby Veck, acostumado a ler nesses olhos, compreendeu logo que havia algo de novo; beijou os lábios que pertenciam ao mesmo rosto, e comprimir duas faces vermelhas entre as mãos."
abookloverchronicles's review against another edition
4.0
Es una recopilación de historias navideñas