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 Charles Dickens Acclaimed as one of the most famous authors that ever lived | |
| Born | 7 February 1812 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 9 June 1870 Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Bibliography
Major novels
- The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837)
- Oliver Twist (1837–1839)
- Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841)
- Barnaby Rudge (1841)
- The Christmas books:
- A Christmas Carol (1843)
- The Chimes (1844)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
- The Battle of Life (1846)
- The Haunted Man (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 (unfinished) (1870)
Selected other books
- Sketches by Boz (1836)
- Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–1841)
- American Notes (1842)
- Pictures from Italy (1844–1845)
- The Life of Our Lord (1846, published in 1934)
- A Child's History of England (1851–1853)
- The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869)
Short stories
- A Child's Dream of a Star (1850)
- Captain Murderer
- The Christmas stories:
- A Christmas Tree (1850)
- What Christmas is, as We Grow Older (1851)
- The Poor Relation's Story (1852)
- The Child's Story (1852)
- The Schoolboy's Story (1853)
- Nobody's Story (1853)
- The Seven Poor Travellers (1854)
- The Holly-tree Inn (1855)
- The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856)
- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
- Going into Society (1858)
- The Haunted House (1859)
- A Message from the Sea (1860)
- Tom Tiddler's Ground (1861)
- Somebody's Luggage (1862)
- Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings (1863)
- Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (1864)
- Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (1865)
- Mugby Junction (1866)
- No Thoroughfare (1867)
- George Silverman's Explanation
- Holiday Romance
- Hunted Down
- The Lamplighter
- The Signal-Man (1866)
- Sunday Under Three Heads
- The Trial for Murder
Essays
Articles
Notes
References
- Drabble, Margaret, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, (1997), London: Oxford University Press.
- Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens, (2002), Vintage, ISBN 0-09-943709-0
- Slater, Michael, ‘Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812–1870)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 6 June 2006
External links
- Sources online
- Charles Dickens Biography
- Works by Charles Dickens at Project Gutenberg
- Dickens Literature — Chapter-indexed, searchable versions of Dickens’ works
- Charles Dickens HTML format of Dickens books
- The Dickens Search Engine Search Dickens' books
- A Charles Dickens Journal Timeline of Dickens' Life
- Critical analysis
- Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton
- Charles Dickens' Themes An analysis of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Nicholas Nickleby and A Trial For Murder
- Life of Charles Dickens, by Frank Marzials, at Project Gutenberg. 1887 publication with lengthy bibliography.
- Charles Dickens: The Life of the Author a seminar by Kenneth Benson from the New York Public Library
- Miscellaneous
- the Dickens Fellowship
- Charles Dickens in south-west London Twickenham and Richmond
- A Dickens web page with both original content and links to many other Dickens pages
- Dickens’ Characters some of the estimated 989 characters in Dickens
- Dickens’ London Map Learn more about the London locations Dickens wrote about
- A comprehensive Dickens page
- A genealogical tree of the Dickens family
- Charles Dickens — Gad’s Hill Place Daily Dickens information
- Dickens Museum Situated in a former Dickens House, 48 Doughty Street, London, WC1
- Dickens Birthplace Museum Old Commercial Road, Portsmouth
- Dickens House Museum 2 Victoria Parade, Broadstairs, Kent
- the Dutch Dickens Museum 2, Onderstraat, Bronkhorst (Netherlands)
- Broadstairs Dickens Festival
- International Dickens Festival
- Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco
- ‘The Pride of Mankind’ A sequence of verses advertising Warren’s Boot Blacking — Dickens’ first known appearance in print
- Free audiobook of A Christmas Carol at LibriVox
- Free audiobook of The Signal-Man at LibriVox
- Unabridged dramatic audio production of "A Christmas Carol" - RealAudio
- 1991 audio interview with Peter Ackroyd, biographer of Charles Dickens. Interview by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio
- Charles Dickens at IMDb
- Rochester local history
- Uses of Eastgate House, Rochester
- History of the Dickens Statue
- Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil A scanned, full-text version of the 19th Century book on Charles Dickens' Life
- Dickens's Works: text, concordances and frequency lists
- 1868 Caricature of Charles Dickens by André Gill