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Charles Dickens


(Charles John Huffam Dickens)
UK flag (1812 - 1870)
Great-grandfather of Monica Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Historical
 
Novels
   The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837)
     aka The Pickwick Papers
   The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838)
   The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
   Barnaby Rudge (1841)
   Master Humphrey's Clock (1841)
   The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
   A Christmas Carol (1843)
   The Chimes (1844)
     aka A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
   The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
   The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
   The Battle of Life (1846)
   Dombey and Son (1848)
   The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
     aka A Fancy for Christmas-Time
   David Copperfield (1850)
   Bleak House (1853)
   Hard Times (1854)
   Little Dorrit (1857)
   A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
   Great Expectations (1861)
   Our Mutual Friend (1865)
   No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
   The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
   The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories (1984)
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Collections
   Sketches by Boz (1836)
   Christmas Stories (1844)
   Boots at the Holly-tree Inn (1858)
   Reprinted Pieces (1861)
   The Haunted House (1862) (with others)
   Mugby Junction (1866) (with others)
   The Mudfog Papers (1880)
     aka Mudfog and Other Sketches
   To Be Read At Dusk (1898)
   A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales (1961)
   Complete Plays and Selected Poems (poems) (1974)
   The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1983)
   Christmas Tales (1988)
   Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Stories (1992)
   An Audience with Charles Dickens (1996)
   Hunted Down (1996)
   Best Ghost Stories (1997)
   Ghostly Christmas (2004)
   A Vintage Christmas (2018) (with others)
   Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories (2020)
   Christmas with Charles Dickens (2021)
   The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories (2023) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   A House to Let (1858)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
Vintage Minis
   London (2020)
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Anthologies containing stories by Charles Dickens
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Short stories
Horatio Sparkins
Mrs Gamp
Mrs. Joseph Porter
Nurse's Stories
The Queer Client
Sentiment
Sikes and Nancy
The Drunkard's Death (1836)
The Pickwick Papers (excerpt) (1837)
The Story of the Bagman's Uncle (1837)
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1837)
The Trial from Pickwick (1837)
A Christmas Carol [short story] (1843)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain [short story] (1848)
The Holly-Tree (1855)
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices [short story] (1857)
The Haunted House [short story] (1859)
Hunted Down [short story] (1859)
Captain Murderer (1860)
The Devil and Mr Chips (1860)
The Rat That Could Speak (1860)
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings (1863)
Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (1864)
To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt (1865)
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman (1866)
The Signal-Man (1866)
The Signalman [short story] (1866)
No Thoroughfare [short story] (1867)


Awards
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (2010) : Charles Dickens 3 Boxed Set: A Tale of Two Cities/ Great Expectations/ Oliver Twist




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