The Charles Dickens Page
( 1812-1870 )
Major Works
Most of the following are available in inexpensive Penguin or Oxford World's Classics
editions.
Sketches by Boz ( 1836 ).
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ( 1837 ).
Oliver Twist ( 1837-38 ). A novel about the London underworld . Available in a Norton Critical Edition edited by Fred Kaplan.
Nicholas Nickleby ( 1838-39 ).
The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1841 ).
Barnaby Rudge ( 1841 ).
American Notes ( 1842 ). Dickens found much to be desired in the America of his day.
A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ). The first of several 'annual' Christmas books.
Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1843-44 ).
The Chimes ( 1844 ).
The Cricket on the Hearth ( 1845 ).
Pictures from Italy ( 1846 ).
Dombey and Son ( 1847-48 ).
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain ( 1846 ).
David Copperfield ( 1849-50 ). Available in a Norton Critical Edition, Jerome H. Buckley, Editor.
Household Words ( 1850-59 ). A weekly periodical.
Bleak House ( 1852-53 ). A case regarding an inheritance that is eventually eaten up by the legal fees. Also available in Norton Critical Edition, George Ford and Sylvère Monod, Editors.
A Child's History of England ( 1852-54 ).
Hard Times ( 1854 ). The disastrous effects of an education restricted to facts and numbers. Available in a Norton (2nd) Critical Edition, George Ford and Sylvère Monod, Editors.
Little Dorrit ( 1857-58 ).
A Tale of Two Cities ( 1859 ). Novel about the French Revolution. On Line
All the Year Round ( 1859-70 ). Another periodical.
Great Expectations (1860-61 ).
Our Mutual Friend ( 1864-65 ).
The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1870 ).
Dickens novels On Line from Bibliomania.
About Dickens
Peter Ackroyd, Dickens. HarperCollins, 1990. Massive.
Dickens' London.Introduced by Peter Ackroyd. Text by Piers Dudgeon. Headline, 1989. People and places in Dickens' London in photographs. Supplements and sometimes overlaps with Street Life in London. Text by Adolphe Smith. Photographs by John Thompson. Originally published in 1877, reprinted by Blom, 1969.
The Dickens Index. By Nicolas Bentley, Michael Slater, Nina Burgis. Oxford, 1990.
G. K. Chesterton, Chesterton on Dickens. Introduction by Michael Slater. Everyman, 1992.
John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens. Two Volumes. Dutton Reprint, 1927. Originally published in 1872-74.
The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia. Michael and Mollie Hardwick. Citadel, 1993.
Fred Kaplan, Dickens: A Biography.Morrow, 1988.
Sikes and Nancy and Other Public Readings. Edited with an introduction and notes by Philip Collins. Oxford, 1983. As one of the most widely-read authors of his day, Dickens gave numerous public readings from his works.
Charles Dickens from The Victorian Web.
A Great Expectations Page. Has links.
Dickens Criticism from Internet Public Library.
The Dickens Page from Japan. Extensive.
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