Author:Charles John Huffam Dickens

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870)

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English novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature
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Charles John Huffam Dickens

Scans

Works

Novels

• The Pickwick Papers (1836)

• The Spirit of Christmas, excerpt in Our American Holidays - Christmas, edited by Robert Haven Schauffler (1949)

• Oliver Twist (1837–1839)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841)
• Barnaby Rudge (1841)

• The Christmas Books:
  1. A Christmas Carol (1843) (Stave 5 only)
  2. The Chimes (1844)
  3. The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
  4. The Battle of Life (1846)
  5. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (1848)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)
• Dombey and Son (1846–1848)
• David Copperfield (1849–1850)
  • David Copperfield (1850)
  • David Copperfield (1869), from Project Gutenberg
  • David Copperfield, Vol 1 (1880) (transcription project)
  • David Copperfield, Vol 2 (1880) (transcription project)
• Bleak House (1852–1853)
• Hard Times (1854)
• Little Dorrit (1855–1857)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859) (transcription project)
• Great Expectations (1860–1861)
• Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865)
  • Our Mutual Friend, ed. Lang, 1897, Vol 1
  • Our Mutual Friend, ed. Lang, 1897, Vol 2
  • Our Mutual Friend,New York, Continental Press
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) (unfinished) (Illustrated by Luke Fildes)

Selected other books

• Sketches by Boz (1836)
• American Notes (1842)[1]
• Pictures From Italy, (1846)
• The Life of Our Lord, 1846[2]
• A Child's History of England (1851–1853)
• A Christmas Carol - 1st Ed - Printed in Gregg Shorthand

Short stories

• The Begging-Letter Writer
• Bill-Sticking
• Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son
• A Child's Dream of a Star
• The Child's Story
• A Christmas Tree
• The Detective Police
• Doctor Marigold
• Down with the Tide
• Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two Months
• A Flight
• Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association
• Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association
• George Silverman's Explanation
• The Ghost of Art
• Going into Society
• The Haunted-House
• Holiday Romance
• The Holly-Tree
• Hunted Down
• The Lamplighter
• The Long Voyage
• Lying Awake
• A Message from the Sea
• A Monument of French Folly
• Mr. Robert Bolton: The 'Gentleman Connected with the Press'
• Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
• Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
• Mugby Junction
• The Noble Savage
• Nobody's Story
• On Duty with Inspector Field
• Our Bore
• Our English Watering-Place
• Our French Watering-Place
• Our Honourable Friend
• Our School
• Our Vestry
• Out of the Season
• Out of Town
• The Pantomime of Life
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
• Plated Article
• A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent
• The Poor Relation's Story
• Prince Bull
• Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble--Once Mayor of Mudfog
• The Schoolboy's Story
• The Seven Poor Travellers
• The Signal-Man
• Sketches of Young Couples
• Sketches of Young Gentlemen
• Some Particulars Concerning a Lion
• Somebody's Luggage
• Sunday Under Three Heads
• Thoughts about People
• Three Detective Anecdotes
• To Be Read at Dusk
• Tom Tiddler's Ground
• The Trial for Murder
• A Walk in a Workhouse
• What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
• The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Essays

• "In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray"
• New Uncommercial Samples

Articles

• "A Coal Miner's Evidence"
• “Adelaide Anne Procter,” in The Atlantic Monthly, 16 (98) (December 1865)
  • Read Dickens' biographical piece about Adelaide Anne Procter on Google Books.
• Dickens also wrote the introduction to a "New Edition, with Additions" of Procter's Legends and Lyrics.
• Littell's Living Age, 6 January 1865 on Google Books
• Subsequent editions of Procter's works also contain Dickens' introduction

Works about Dickens

• "Charles Dickens" in The Times (1870)
• “Dickens, Charles” by William Minto  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1878.
• “Dickens, Charles” by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Dickens, Charles,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• “Dickens, Charles,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• Charles Dickens (1906) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• “Dickens, Charles” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Dickens, Charles,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Dickens, Charles John Huffam”, by Thomas Seccombe in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Dickens, Charles,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “Dickens, Charles,” by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Dickens, Charles,” in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• “Carstone, Richard,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Daisy, Solomon,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• "Charles Dickens" by George Orwell
• “David Copperfield,” by Wilbur L. Cross in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Great Expectations,” by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Review of The Old Curiosity Shop" by Edgar Allan Poe
• “Old Curiosity Shop,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “Old Curiosity Shop,” in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Oliver Twist,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “Oliver Twist,” by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Pickwick Papers,” by Wilbur L. Cross in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Tale of Two Cities, A,” by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)