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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Great Expectations (1861)
Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This first edition of Great Expectations was published in three volumes without illustrations. Read online at archive.org:
Great Expectations (1875)
This was the first illustrated edition of the story of Pip and his patron. Read online at Hathitrust.
Great Expectations (1939)
Young Pip finds he has a patron - but who?
Great Expectations (1959)
Young Pip acquires a patron and soon rises above his family. This is the World’s Classics edition with dust jacket by Ardizzone #128.
Warwick Goble
Great Expectations (1962)
This edition has been slightly shortened to concentrate on the story of Pip and his relationship to his great patron.
Great Expectations (1979)
Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This edition includes Dickens’ original ending where Pip and Estella are not reconciled.
A Handy Dickens (1941)
A potpourri of Dickens extracts.
Hard Times for These Times (1854)
The utilitarian Mr. Gradgrind manages to destroy his children’s happiness. Read online at archive.org.
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848)
Professor Redlaw simmers with anger over ancient slights, but discovers forgetting does no good -- he must forgive. Read online at archive.org.
Clarkson Stanfield
F. Stone
John Tenniel
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1899)
Professor Redlaw is haunted by his anger at past slights but learns forgetting will not heal him -- he must forgive. Read online at archive.org.
The Holly Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1926)
Four short tales by Dickens including The Holly-tree, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Poor Relation’s Story, and The Haunted House.
The Humour of Dickens (1952)
A collection of Dickens snippets with illustrations by various hands.
Michael Cummings
Giles
Osbert Lancaster
Ronald Searle
Little Dorrit (1857)
Her father imprisoned in the Marshalsea Prison for debt, Amy (Little Dorrit) was born there and has grown up there. The novel follows her through numerous turns of fortune from destitute to wealthy and back again. Read online at Hathitrust.
The Magic Fishbone (1921)
The story of the Princess Alicia and her fairy godmother Grandmarina and a certain salmon bone, to say nothing of her eighteen brothers and sisters. Read online at archive.org.
The Magic Fishbone (1953)
The Princess Alicia keeps the magic fishbone in her pocket until the right time.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Old Martin Chuzzlewit tries to manipulate his relatives by the promise of inheriting his wealth. Read online at archive.org.
Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840)
Master Humphrey’s Clock was begun as a weekly miscellany, but sales fell so much Dickens began the serialization of The Old Curiosity Shop in the fourth number. It was followed by Barnaby Rudge. In addition to weekly and monthly numbers, the final work was published in three volumes and the two novels in separate volumes (but retaining their original pagination). Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.
George Cattermole
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838)
This autobiography of a famous British clown was rewritten by Dickens. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2.
Joseph Grimaldi
Thomas Egerton Wilks
W. Greatbach
S. Raven
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1968)
The autobiography of a British clown who was active in the early nineteenth century.
Joseph Grimaldi
W. Greatbach
Bernard Schleifer
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
In this unfinished murder mystery, young Edwin Drood disappears shortly after breaking off his engagement. Read online at archive.org.
S. Luke Fildes