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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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1980)
Edwin Drood disappears on the day he breaks off his engagement.
Leon Garfield
The National Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1906)
This complete works of Charles Dickens was published in a forty-volume set and this eighty-volume set.
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Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
Nicholas and his sister Kate must find a way to support their mother, despite their miserly uncle Ralph. Read online at archive.org.
No Thoroughfare (1867)
Based on a stage play co-written with Wilkie Collins, this is the story of two orphans given the same name and the search for a missing heir. The title page by Bedford; frontis by Goodman. Read online at archive.org.
Charles Dickens
No Thoroughfare (1898)
Based on a stage play co-written with Wilkie Collins, this is the story of two orphans given the same name and the search for a missing heir. The title page by Bedford; frontis by Goodman.
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A. Jules Goodman
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
Her grandfather having gambled away all his property and suffered a debilitating stroke, Little Nell flees with him to the English heartland. Read online at archive.org.
George Cattermole
Daniel Maclise
Oliver Twist (1838)
Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.
Oliver Twist (1846)
Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets. The cover is for the extremely rare parts issue which was published in a single-volume “new, revised and corrected” edition. Read online at archive.org.
Oliver Twist (1994)
Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets.
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
The Australian heir to a junk king’s fortune has disappeared. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Our Mutual Friend (1957)
The Australian heir to a junk king’s fortune goes missing.
The Oxford Illustrated Dickens (1947)
This edition in twenty-one volumes has been frequently reprinted.
George Cruikshank
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People from Dickens (1935)
Extracts from Dickens that illuminate his characters.
Pictures from Italy (1846)
An account of Dickens’ travels in 1844. Read online at archive.org.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837)
The adventures of Mr. Pickwick, his servant Sam Weller and his friends. Read online at archive.org.
Robert William Buss
Robert Seymour
Runaways and Castaways (1908)
A selection of stories of adventure from well known authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
F. Anstey
Charles Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Bret Harte
Charles Kingsley
Mark Twain
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories (1935)
Six literary fairy tales, including The Magic Fishbone and Perez the Mouse.
Oscar Wilde
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The Short Stories of Charles Dickens (1971)
A generous helping of the shorter fictions of the ‘inimitable Dickens’ as he liked to style himself.
Sketches by Boz (1836)
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.
Sketches by Boz: New Edition, Complete (1839)
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 cover, enlarged the plates (except ‘The Free and Easy’ which was discarded), and created 13 new illustrations for these monthly parts. In May 1839, Chapman and Hall published these parts complete in one volume with all 40 of Cruikshank’s illustrations.”
Reference: Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, p. 16. See Biblio.
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