Author:Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

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An English novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature.
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Charles 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)
• Bleak House (1852–1853)
• Hard Times (1854)
• Little Dorrit (1855–1857)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• Great Expectations (1860–1861)
• Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) (unfinished)

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)

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"

Articles

• "A Coal Miner's Evidence"
• "Adelaide Anne Procter", from The Atlantic Monthly (December 1865)^[1][2]

About

• “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,” 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, 1920.
• “Dickens, Charles,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

On his works

• "Review of The Old Curiosity Shop" by Edgar Allan Poe
• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• “David Copperfield” by Wilbur L. Cross  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Great Expectations” by William T. Brewster  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Oliver Twist” by William T. Brewster  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Pickwick Papers” by Wilbur L. Cross  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Tale of Two Cities, A” by William T. Brewster  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

References

1. Read Dickens' biographical piece about Adelaide Anne Procter on Google Books.
2. Dickens also wrote the introduction to a "New Edition, with Additions" of Procter's Legends and Lyrics. See Littell's Living Age, 6 January 1865 on Google Books. Subsequent editions of Procter's works also contain Dickens' introduction.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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