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Books in the Essays genre:

Sketches by Boz (1836)

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This first series of Sketches by Boz was published in two volumes. Short pieces about people and places. This is a reprint of the original and its illustrations at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Sunday Under Three Heads (1836)

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Written under the Dickens pseudonym of Timothy Sparks, this pamphlet opposed proposed laws restricting popular entertainment on Sundays. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Timothy Sparks
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne

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Sketches by Boz: The Second Series (1837)

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This further collection was published in a single volume. The second edition of this title included two additional illustrations.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838)

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A collection of humorous sketches, written as a reply to Sketches of Young Women, written by Edward Casell, with which and Sketches of Young Couples, it is frequently published.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne

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Sketches by Boz: New Edition, Complete (1839)

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In Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, Walter E. Smith writes: “When Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839. Cruikshank designed a ... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Sketches of Young Couples (1840)

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A collection of humorous sketches.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne

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A Jar of Honey From Mount Hybla (1848)

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A book on the pastoral poetry of Sicily. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Leigh Hunt
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Owen Jones

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The Uncommercial Traveller (1861)

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This is the first edition of sketches written during the author’s nighttime walks through London. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): None

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The Uncommercial Traveller (1866)

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This is the second, cheap, enlarged edition of Dickens’ essays and tales produced by his nighttime wanderings through London. It includes a frontispiece. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): G. J. Pinwell

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)

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Twain heard the title story told in a saloon in Angels Camp, one of the gold mining towns in California. Includes a total of forty-one pieces which had earlier appeared in newspapers. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Progress (1869)

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Originally written as letters to American newspapers, this travelogue includes a large dollop of satire on the Americans abroad and the Europeans who engaged to fleece them. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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Number One: Mark Twain’s Sketches (1874)

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Thirteen tales and sketches.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): R. T. Sperry

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Mark Twain’s Sketches: New and Old (1875)

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Sixty-six pieces, many of which were previously published from the author’s periodical journalism. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): True W. Williams

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The Uncommercial Traveller (1875)

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This is the third, further enlarged edition of Dickens’ pieces written while pacing through London at night taken from the Illustrated Library Edition.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Marcus Stone

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A True Story, and The Recent Carnival of Crime (1877)

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Two sketches, a slave narrative and a report on the author’s struggles with his conscience.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches (1878)

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Nine stories and essays. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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A Tramp Abroad (1880)

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The story of a walking tour of Germany and Italy, enlivened and augmented by numerous digressions and discursions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Walter Francis Brown
Benjamin Henry Day
W. W. Denslow
True W. Williams
Et al

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The Stolen White Elephant, Etc (1882)

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Eighteen articles and stories. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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Merry Tales (1892)

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Seven essays and stories previously published in magazines. The second issue has the frontispiece photo of the author. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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The 1,000,000 Pound Bank Note and Other New Stories (1893)

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A collection of nine stories. These were included in the larger omnibus The American Claimant, etc. of 1917. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Dan Beard

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