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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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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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Sketches of Young Couples (1840)
A collection of humorous sketches.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Somebody’s Luggage (1898)
This was the Christmas number of “All the Year Round” for 1862. Dickens wrote several of the pieces.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Et al
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Timothy Sparks
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
A Tale of Two Cities (1938)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
None
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
G. J. Pinwell
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Marcus Stone
The Uncommercial Traveller (1898)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Harry Furniss
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.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous