Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Novels criticize the injustices of his time, especially the brutal treatment of the poor in a society sharply divided by differences of wealth. But he presents this criticism through the lives of characters that seem to live and breathe. Paradoxically, they often do so by being flamboyantly larger than life: The 20th-century poet and critic T. S. Eliot wrote, "Dickens's characters are real because there is no one like them." Yet though these characters range through the sentimental, grotesque, and humorous, few authors match Dickens's psychological realism and depth....

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Charles Dickens Novels

• The Pickwick Papers 1837
• Oliver Twist 1838
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1839
• The Old Curiosity Shop 1841
• Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty 1841
• Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 1844
• Dombey and Son 1848
• 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
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished; 1870

Charles Dickens Short Stories

• A Message From the Sea
• Doctor Marigold
• George Silverman's Explanation
• Going Into Society
• Holiday Romance
• Hunted Down
• Mrs Lirriper's Legacy
• Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings
• Mugby Junction
• Somebody's Luggage
• Some Short Christmas Stories
• Sunday Under Three Heads
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
• The Holly Tree Three Branches
• The Lamplighter
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
• The Seven Poor Travellers
• The Wreck of the Golden Mary
• Tom Tiddler's Ground

Other books and works by Charles Dickens

• A Child's History of England
• A Christmas Carol
• A House to Let
• American Notes for General Circulation
• Master Humphrey's Clock
• Miscellaneous Papers
• Mudfog and Other Sketches
• No Thoroughfare
• Pictures from Italy
• Reprinted Pieces
• Sketches by Boz
• Sketches of Young Couples
• Sketches of Young Gentlemen
• Speeches: Literary And Social by Charles Dickens
• The Battle of Life
• The Chimes
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• The Uncommercial Traveller
• Three Ghost Stories: The Haunted House
• Three Ghost Stories: The Signal Man
• Three Ghost Stories: The Trial For Murder
• To be Read at Dusk