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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Sketches by Boz: The Second Series (1837)
This further collection was published in a single volume. The second edition of this title included two additional illustrations.
Sketches of Young Couples (1840)
A collection of humorous sketches.
Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838)
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.
Somebody’s Luggage (1898)
This was the Christmas number of “All the Year Round” for 1862. Dickens wrote several of the pieces.
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Sunday Under Three Heads (1836)
Written under the Dickens pseudonym of Timothy Sparks, this pamphlet opposed proposed laws restricting popular entertainment on Sundays. Read online at archive.org.
Timothy Sparks
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” Read online at archive.org.
A Tale of Two Cities (1938)
A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
Read online at archive.org.
The Uncommercial Traveller (1861)
This is the first edition of sketches written during the author’s nighttime walks through London. Read online at archive.org.
The Uncommercial Traveller (1866)
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.
The Uncommercial Traveller (1875)
This is the third, further enlarged edition of Dickens’ pieces written while pacing through London at night taken from the Illustrated Library Edition.
The Uncommercial Traveller (1898)
This is the Gadshill edition of sketches written during the author’s nighttime walks through London and contains one additional story not in the third edition. This American edition contains thirty-five essays. Read online at archive.org. Here are thirty-six essays at Hathitrust.
The Works of Charles Dickens (1900)
This thirty volume American collected edition was in print for many years and can usually be bought very inexpensively. The illustrations are not the originals and are uncredited.