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. Each of his major novels appeared in several forms usually starting with an initial publication in periodical form, then collected into a first edition book, followed by a Cheap edition, a Library edition, and a final Charles Dickens edition. Despite important corrections made in subsequent printings, the accumulation of printers' errors makes the first editions the best versions of his texts.
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1209Q5686Charles John Huffam DickensCharles John HuffamDickensCharles DickensEnglish novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature. Each of his major novels appeared in several forms usually starting with an initial publication in periodical form, then collected into a first edition book, followed by a Cheap edition, a Library edition, and a final Charles Dickens edition. Despite important corrections made in subsequent printings, the accumulation of printers' errors makes the first editions the best versions of his texts.
one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

Scans

• The Works of Charles Dickens (1897), 36 volumes

• The Pickwick Papers (also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) (1836)
  • The Spirit of Christmas, excerpt in Our American Holidays - Christmas, edited by Robert Haven Schauffler (1949)
• Oliver Twist (1837–1839)
• The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839)
  • Serialization in 20 parts
  • Nicholas Nickleby (First Edition)
  • Cheap Edition IA
  • Library Edition IA IA

• Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens Edition) (parts 1 and 2) from The Works of Charles Dickens (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

• Master Humphrey's clock
  • Master Humphrey's Clock serialized
  • Master Humphrey's Clock. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Vol. I [II] [III]. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. MDCCCXL [MDCCCXLI in Vols. II and III]. (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Editions Charles Dickens Contributed To
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (First Edition) 1841: First one-volume edition of The Old Curiosity Shop (transcription project) (1840–1841)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (Philadelphia edition) The Old Curiosity Shop, and Other Tales. By Charles Dickens. With Numerous Illustrations By Cattermole and Browne. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. 1841.
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (Cheap edition) The Old Curiosity Shop. By Charles Dickens. With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole. Engraved by T. Williams. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. MDCCCXLVIII.
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (Library edition) The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens. In two Volumes. Vol. I. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly; Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street. 1858.
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens edition) The Old Curiosity Shop. By Charles Dickens. with Eight Illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1867.
  • Critical Editions
  • The Clarendon Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop Elizabeth M. Brennan (ed.) Publisher: Oxford University Press; The Clarendon Dickens, 1997 The Old Curiosity Shop(Clarendon Edition)
  • Other Editions
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
• Barnaby Rudge (1841)
  • First Edition (transcription project)
  • Cheap Edition
  • Library Edition
  • Charles Dickens Edition
  • 1867 Edition (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Christmas Books:
  1. A Christmas Carol (1843) (Stave 5 only)
  2. The Chimes (1844), scanned version (transcription project)
  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)
  • Editions Charles Dickens Contributed To
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (Serial)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (First Edition) (transcription project)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (Cheap Edition) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens. With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. MDCCCL.
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (Library Edition) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens. In two volumes. Vol. I [II]. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly; and Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. 1858.
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (Charles Dickens Edition) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. By Charles Dickens. With eight illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1867.
  • Critical Editions
  • The Clarendon Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit Margaret Cardwell (ed.) Publisher: Oxford University Press; The Clarendon Dickens In Copyright (Clarendon Edition)
• Dombey and Son (1846–1848)
• David Copperfield (1849–1850)
• Bleak House (1852–1853)
• Hard Times (1854)
  • First Edition (transcription project)
  • Cheap Edition
  • Library Edition
  • Charles Dickens Edition

  1867 Edition (transcription project)

• Little Dorrit (1855–1857)
  • Editions that Charles Dickens Contributed To
  • Little Dorrit (Serial)
  • Little Dorrit (First Edition) Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. With illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, ii, Bouverie Street. 1857.
  • Little Dorrit (Library Edition) Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. In two volumes. Vol. I. [II.] London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly; and Bradbury and Evans, ii, Bouverie Street. 1859.
  • Little Dorrit (Cheap Edition) Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. With frontispiece by Marcus Stone. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1861.Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. With eight illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1868.
  • Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens Edition) Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. With eight illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1868.
  • Little Dorrit (Lang Edition) Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1897. (transcription project)
  • Critical Editions
  • The Clarendon Dickens: Little Dorrit Harvey Peter Sucksmith (ed.) Publisher: Oxford University Press; The Clarendon Dickens, 1979 In Copyright Little Dorrit (Clarendon)
  • Other Editions
  • Little Dorrit (Unknown later printing)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• Great Expectations (1860–1861)
• Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865)
  • Our Mutual Friend (Serial)
    • Our Mutual Friend (Library Edition) (transcription project)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) (unfinished) (illustrated by Luke Fildes)
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (serial) In six monthly parts, April to September (31 March to 31 August) 1870
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (First Edition)
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Library Edition) The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1874.
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens Edition) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Other Stories. By Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.
  • Critical Editions
  • The Clarendon Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Margaret Cardwell (ed.) Publisher: Oxford University Press; The Clarendon Dickens, 1972 In Copyright [The Clarendon Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Margaret Cardwell (ed.) Publisher: Oxford University Press; The Clarendon Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Clarendon)

• 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
• A Child's History of England and Miscellaneous Pieces (1900)

• Volume 1: A Child's History of England (1900)
• Volume 2: The Holly-Tree Inn and Other Reprinted Pieces (1900)

• 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

• Also: The Holly-Tree Inn

• 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, as "Boz" in Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 1, 1837; illustrated by George Cruikshank (start transcription)
  • Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble--Once Mayor of Mudfog (unsourced)
• 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 (1862)
• Sunday Under Three Heads
• 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

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

• "A Coal Miner's Evidence"
• "Adelaide Anne Procter" in The Atlantic Monthly, 16 (98) (December, 1865)
• 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

• Household Words (serial)
  • Volume 12 (transcription project)
• "Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi" (1838), edited by Dickens under his regular nom de plume, "Boz". (1853 edition at Internet Archive)

• "Charles Dickens," in The Times (1870)
• Dickens, a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Dickens, Charles," by William Minto in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 7) (1878)
• "Dickens, Charles," by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Dickens, Charles," by Leslie Stephen in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Dickens, Charles," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• Charles Dickens (1906) by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• "Dickens, Charles," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) 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)
• "Charles Dickens", a poem by Dorothy Parker (1928)

• The bibliography of Dickens (transcription project)
• Bibliography of the writings of Charles Dickens (transcription project)

• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1911)
• "The Good Enchantment of Charles Dickens," (article in Scribner's Magazine) by Henry van Dyke (1912)
• "Carstone, Richard," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Daisy, Solomon," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Charles Dickens" by George Orwell
• Charles Dickens, a Critical Study by George Robert Gissing (1898) (transcription project)
• "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)
• Pickwickian manners and customs by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1897)
• "Tale of Two Cities, A," by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)