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Charles Dickens
(1812 - 1870)
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.
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A Christmas Carol (1843)
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Christmas Books (1869)
An omnibus containing the five Christmas books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, and The Battle of Life.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Charles Keene
John Leech
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. READ NOW.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
John Leech
A Christmas Carol (1899)
The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A Christmas Carol (1915)
The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A Christmas Carol (1923)
The classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. This abridged edition has more illustrations than the 1899 edition.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A Christmas Carol (1934)
This edition of the classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge has a preface by Stephen Leacock.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Ross
Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" (1913)
Twenty stories from periodicals. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Dalziel
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The Cricket on the Hearth (1846)
This the the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Edwin Landseer
John Leech
Daniel Maclise
Clarkson Stanfield
The Cricket on the Hearth (1899)
This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Cricket on the Hearth (1927)
This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends. This edition has many more illustrations than the 1899 edition.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Cricket on the Hearth (1927)
This, the most popular of Dickens’ Christmas books, tells a domestic story of the Peerybingle family and their friends. This edition has many more illustrations than the 1899 edition.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
David Copperfield (1850)
This autobiographical novel was considered by its author as his greatest work, and his readers over the last century and a half have agreed with him. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
David Copperfield (1911)
This autobiographical novel was considered by its author as his greatest work, and his readers over the last century and a half have agreed with him. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Frank Reynolds
David Copperfield (1962)
This is a newly illustrated version of Dickens’ autobiographical magnum opus.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Dickens’s Children (1912)
This is a thin portfolio with ten illustrations and accompanying text. The illustrations were reused in The Children of Dickens. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Doctor Marigold (1945)
A sentimental tale as only Dickens can tell. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Robin Jacques
Dombey and Son (1848)
Paul Dombey’s wife dies giving birth to their son. The father values little Paul only as his heir and neglects his daughter Florence. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Drawn from Life (1868)
The Sketches of Young Ladies appeared first and Dickens was hired to produce the sequels. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edward Caswall
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Forgotten Tales of Long Ago (1906)
Twenty short stories, many by anonymous authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Jacob Abbott
Anonymous
Charles Dickens
Maria Edgeworth
Peter Parley
Et al
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Gadshill Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1908)
Based on the author’s final edition with the original illustrations as well as many additional illustrations. Includes two volumes of uncollected pieces and the two-volume biography by John Forster for a total of 38 volumes.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
John Forster
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
George Cruikshank
Harry Furniss
Et al