Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens' creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters. On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood. He never regained consciousness, and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place. Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads: "To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world." His last words were: "On the ground", in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down. (from Wikipedia)
Series
Books
Best Ghost Stories
2005
Charles Dickens
Five Novels
2018
Bleak House, volume II
1853
Perdersi a Londra
1853
Oliver Twist
2020
Mrs Lirriper
1863
The Christmas Books, Vol 2
2005
On Travel
2010
The Gospel in Dickens
Selections from His Works
2020
Charles Dickens
The Complete Novels + A Christmas Carol
2015
Dickens at Christmas
2012
Old Curiosity Shop, Vol 1
1841
Oliver Twist
1838
The Boarding-House
2014
Stories for Christmas
1862
Lewis Carroll
The Complete Collection (Illustrated)
2012
A Madman's Manuscript
1836
The Schoolboy's Story
1853
Charles Dickens' Christmas Stories
2017
Ghostly Tales
Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
2017
Mugby Junction and Other Stories
2006
The Dickens Digest
1943
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
1843
Pictures from Italy
1846
Illustrated Dickens
2009
A House to Let
1858
Great Expectations
2007
A Classic Tales Christmas
2023
Perils of Certain English Prisoners
1857
David Copperfield, Volume II of II by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Classics, Historical
1850
A Christmas Carol
1843
Dickens' London
1957
A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures
2013
The Great Winglebury Duel
1839
The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens
2004
Our English and French Watering-Place
2014
The Story Of Little Nell
From Old Curiosity Shop
1897
A Christmas Carol
What if Scrooge were a woman?
2019
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
1988
A Christmas Carol
2019
The Life of Our Lord
1934
The Tuggses at Ramsgate
1989
Storie di spettri (BUR Dark)
2024
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Charles Dickens
1856
The Ultimate Christmas Collection
2020
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]
2020
The Holly-Tree
1850
American Notes and Pictures from Italy
1846
Sketches By Boz
Vol. II
2004
Four Novels
2020
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol
2
2019
საშობაო მოთხრობები
1843
Going into Society
1859
The Uncommercial Traveller
1869
Works of Charles Dickens
1870
Christmas Festivities
2023
The Long Voyage
1853
A Christmas Tree
1850
The Cricket on the Hearth and Other Christmas Stories
1859
Five Novels
Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations
1861
Charles Dickens Collection
1843
Great Expectations
1860
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
The Seven Dwarfs
2001
Christmas Stories
1871
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol
4
2024
A Message from the Sea
1860
Nicholas Nickleby
1839
50 Greatest Short Stories
2015
The Drunkard's Death
2011
Eclissi. Storie all'ombra della luna
2022
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
1852
The Selected Illustrated Works of Charles Dickens
The Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Other Tales
2010
To Be Read at Dusk
1852
Oliver Tvist - Oliver Twist
1960
David Coperfield, tomo 2
1850
Three Detective Anecdotes
2014
The Magic Fishbone
1867
The Chimes
1844
Poems
2013
Three Great Novels
1861
A Christmas Carol / The Cricket on the Hearth
1843
The Poor Relation's Story
1871
Dickens' Dictionary of London 1888
1848
Cuentos de miedo
2019
Contes de Noël
2020
David Copperfield
1850
Great Expectations
1958
A Treasury of Charles Dickens
1989
Um conto de Natal
Edição ilustrada
2024
Mugby Junction
1866
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
2012
L'anima degli affari
Lettere e riflessioni sul mestiere di scrivere
2021
Somebody's Luggage
1862
Dawid Copperfield. Tom 1
1850
Sketches of Young Couples
1843
A Child's Dream of a Star
1850
Nobody's Story
1853
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
1851
Impressioni di Roma. Pictures From Rome. 1846.
2015
Four Complete Novels
1861
Little Christmas Carol
2024
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Vol. II
1970
The Personal History of David Copperfield, Vol. 1 of 2
With Illustrations
1850
The Black Veil
2000
A Vintage Christmas
A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems
2018
Bleak House
1853
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings
1864
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
1848
Sam Mendes Presents
David Copperfield
2023
The Short Stories of Charles Dickens
1866
A Christmas Carol
(Unabridged) The Complete 5 Staves, by Charles Dickens (Illustrated by John Leech), Prefaced by Dickens.: A Ghost Story of Christmas
2021
Der Weihnachtsabend. Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa; oder
Eine Geistergeschichte zum Weihnachtsfest: Reclam Taschenbuch
2015
Christmas with Charles Dickens
2021
Scrooge #worstgiftever
2016
Reprinted Pieces
1903
Master Humphrey's Clock
1841
My Early Times
1988
A Tale of Two Cities
1859
A Christmas Carol & Other Holiday Tales
2003
Night Walks
1869
The Haunted House
1859
Two Histories of England
1853
The Big Book of Christmas
140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols
2020
X
2016
Sketches by Boz Vol. I
1967
A Charles Dickens Christmas
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Seven Poor Travellers
1955
Little Dorrit
1857
Bardell V. Pickwick
1902
Oliver Twist
1
2014
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
Mr Testator's Visitation
2004
مختارات من القصص الإنجليزي
2011
The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection
The Later Years
2018
Chilling Horror Short Stories
2015
Cuentos de amor victorianos
2006
Barnaby Rudge
1841
The Adventures of Oliver Twist/A Child's History of England
1853
The Bloomsbury Christening
2014
The Begging-Letter Writer
2014
Oliver Twist
1995
Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
1930
The Trial For Murder
1865
The Signalman
1866
The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time
60+ Books in One Volume: Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman…
2020
A Christmas Carol
A Coloring Classic
2016
The Cricket on the Hearth
1845
The Pickwick Papers, Volume II
1836
A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales
1998
Holiday Romance
1868
The Christmas Books, Volume 1
1941
Great Expectations, Volume 2
2006
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1870
The Old Curiosity Shop
1840
Dombey and Son
1848
The Pickwick Papers or The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Part 1 of 3
1987
Four Novels
1992
The Complete Supernatural Stories
2023
Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens
2002
Christmas Classics
2010
Our Mutual Friend
1865
The Complete Harvard Classics 2021 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes
The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction
1722
Canción de Navidad y otros cuentos
2021
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Oliver Twist [adaptation]
2001
The Great Novels of Charles Dickens
2000
Our Mutual Friend; Volume 2
1865
The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time
2023
Rozhdestvenskie povesti
2023
Dombey and Son I
1846
Selected Journalism, 1850-1870
1998
Gather 'Round the Sound
2017
The Collected Works of Charles Dickens
The Complete Works
1868
Victorian Anthologies
A Collection of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses
2020
El gran libro de los gatos
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura felina universal
2019
A história do limpador de botas
2010
The Unabridged Charles Dickens
1861
Oliver Twist
2
2014
Hunted Down
1790
Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories
2020
The Pickwick Papers
1837
The Mudfog Papers
1837
London
2020
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
2009
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
2012
A Dinner at Poplar Walk
2014
The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices
1857
A Child's History of England
1854
The Child's Story
1852
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
1838
The Uncommercial Traveller and Reprinted Pieces
1958
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
1853
The Seven Poor Travellers
1854
Cuentos de Navidad
De los hermanos Grimm a Paul Auster
2015
Classics Authors Super Set Serie 3
2019
Sketches by Boz
1836
On Duty with Inspector Field
2014
The Lamplighter
2000
Complete Ghost Stories
1866
Cuentos de navidad
1867
Christmas Tales - Heartwarming Holiday Stories and Classic Christmas Novels
1985
