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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.”
“I do not know the American gentleman – God forgive me for putting two such words together.”
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilites as probabilities.”
![signature of Charles Dickens [1812-1870]](images/sig_CharlesDickens.jpg)
B I O
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Charles John Huffam Dickens
Charles Dickens entry at Wikipedia
browse Charles Dickens Store {returns 550+ titles} at Amazon
Charles Dickens credits as writer [340 titles since 1897] at Internet Movie Database
character 'Charles Dickens' credits [55 titles since 1916] at Internet Movie Database
Charles Dickens credits at Internet Broadway Database: 42 shows since 1860
Primary Works
170 audio & e-text files (in English & other languages) of works by Charles Dickens at Project Gutenberg
2,800+ e-text/flip-book files of works by or about Charles Dickens at Internet Archive
"Oliver Twist"
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"A Christmas Carol"
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"David Copperfield"
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"Bleak House"
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"Little Dorrit"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
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"Great Expectations"
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"Edwin Drood"
"The Works of Charles Dickens" in 34/36 volumes [1897-98] known as the Gadshill Editions
a full set of the Gadshill Editions will run you US$800 or so (plus s/h) on ebay or abebooks (2014)
"Introductions For The Gadshill Editions of Charles Dickens" [1897] by Andrew Lang
"Introductions" available only as part of "Complete Works of Charles Dickens, Fully Illustrated" for Kindle [2014]
Kindle Edition from L.C.I. [2/2014] for $2.99 {sic}
 | "The Dickens Collection Formed By The Late Dr. R.T. Jupp: Consisting of First Editions of The Works" [1922] by R.T. (Ralph Tennyson) Jupp Rare Books Club 9¾x7½ pb [9/2013] for $9.02 Univ California Libraries 9x6¼ pb [undated] for $9.49 Cornell Univ Library 9x6¼ pb [12/2009] for $13.49 |
 | "Charles Dickens: An Introduction To His Novels" [1969] by E.D.H. Johnson
Random House mass pb [1969] out of print/scarce |
 | "A Reader's Guide To Charles Dickens" [1973] by Philip Hobsbaum
Syracuse Univ Press 8x5½ pb [2/98] for $10.99 Farrar Straus & Giroux 9x6 hardcover [5/73] out of print/used Thames & Hudson, Ltd hardcover [3/73] out of print/used |
 | "Oxford Illustrated Dickens" 21-volume set [1987] the full hardcover set takes up 16½ inches of shelf space Oxford Univ Press 11x8¾ hardcover set [10/87] out of print/used |
"Who's Who In Dickens" [Psychology Press 1998] by Donald Hawes
http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Who-Dickens/dp/0415136040/
"Oxford Reader's Companion To Dickens" [5/1999] by Paul Schlicke
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Readers-Companion-Dickens-Schlicke/dp/0198662130/
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Charles-Dickens-Anniversary/dp/0199640181/
"The Cambridge Companion To Charles Dickens" [Cambridge Univ Press 6/2001] Edited by John O. Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Charles-Companions-Literature/dp/0521669642/
"Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit" [Oxford Univ Press 2003] by John Bowen
http://www.amazon.com/Other-Dickens-Chuzzlewit-John-Bowen/dp/0199261407
Wiley's "Companion To Charles Dickens" [2007]
 | "Reader's Guide To Charles Dickens" [2009] by Rudolf Eisler
Centrum Press hardcover [2009] out of print/used |
 | "A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (Vintage Classics / Everyman’s Library)" [2009] by Charles Dickens, Introduction by Margaret Atwood The timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales - "The Chimes", "The Cricket On The Hearth", "The Battle of Life", and "The Haunted Man" - all with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations Vintage Classics 8x5½ deckle-edge pb [11/2011] for $9.99 Everyman’s Library 8¼x5¼ hardcover [11/2009] for $11.99 |
"The First Editions of The Writings of Charles Dickens and Their Values: A Bibliography" [10/2009] by John C. Eckel
http://www.amazon.com/Editions-Writings-Charles-Dickens-Values/dp/1115759515/
"The Cambridge Introduction To Charles Dickens" [Cambridge Univ Press 2010] by Jon Mee ISBN 978-0-521-67634-2
http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Introduction-Charles-Introductions-Literature/dp/0521676347/
 | "The Major Works of Charles Dickens" Boxed Set [2018] includes 6 novels "A Christmas Carol" [1843 novella], "A Tale of Two Cities" [1859], "Bleak House" [1851-53], "Great Expectations" [1860-61], "Hard Times" [1854], and "Oliver Twist" [1837-39] Kindle Edition from MVP? OPU? [2017] 6? books for 49¢ {sic} ~~ botched details on Amazon Heritage Illustrated Publng 9x6 pb [9/2019] 6 books for $23.99 Penguin Classics slipcover 9¾x5¾ hardcover box set [11/2011] 6 books for $69.38 |
 | "The Charles Dickens Collection" Boxed Set [2018] includes 5 novels "A Christmas Carol" [1843 novella], "A Tale of Two Cities" [1859], "Great Expectations" [1860-61], "Hard Times" [1854], and "Oliver Twist" [1837-39] Arcturus Publng Limited slipcover 7½x5½ hardcover box set [11/2018] 5 books for $31.99 |
"Sunday Under Three Heads" [1836]
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"The Pickwick Papers" [1836-37]
"Bardell v. Pickwick" [1902] Edited With Notes & Commentaries by Percy Fitzgerald, MA, FSA
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25985/25985-h/25985-h.htm
"When Mr. Pickwick Went Fishing" [1924] by Samuel W. Lambert
http://www.amazon.com/When-Mr-Pickwick-Went-Fishing/dp/141795602X/
"Death and Mr. Pickwick: A Novel" [Farrar, Straus & Giroux 6/2015] by Stephen Jarvis
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Mr-Pickwick-Stephen-Jarvis-ebook/dp/B00Q1YU4H8/
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Mr-Pickwick-Stephen-Jarvis/dp/0374139660/
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"Sketches By Boz" [1836-40]
"Oliver Twist" [1837-39]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfTeGMxzlQ [13.53] British Pathé Oliver Twist
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"The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" [1838-39]
"Master Humphrey's Clock" [1840-41]
"The Old Curiosity Shop" [1840-41]
"Review of The Old Curiosity Shop" [] by Edgar Allan Poe
"Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of The Riots of Eighty" [1841]
"The Lamplighter's Story" [1841]
"American Notes For General Circulation" [1842]
"A Christmas Carol" [Dec 1843 novella] Page
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"The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" [1843]
"The Chimes" [1844]
"The Cricket On The Hearth" [1845]
"Pictures From Italy" [1846]
"The Battle of Life" [1846]
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"Dombey and Son" [1846-48]
Dickens largely ignores the new railways in his books until 'Dombey and Son', a strange omission given that the author himself was a victim of the Staplehurst train accident of 1865;
Dickens is clearly appalled by the destruction caused by the advent of rail travel. A bereaved Dombey, mourning the loss of his son, draws parallels between the swiftness of
Paul’s death and the speed of a train hurtling through the countryside, monstrously sweeping away everything in its path.
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"The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain" [1848]
"The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield The Younger" [1849-50]
"The Personal History of David Copperfield" [DUE May 2020]
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"A Christmas Tree" [1850]
"What Christmas Is As We Grow Older" [1851]
"The Child's Story" [1852]
"The Poor Relation's Story" [1852]
"To Be Read At Dusk" [1852]
"A Child's History of England" [1852-54]
"Nobody's Story" [1853]
"The Schoolboy's Story" [1853]
"Hard Times" [1854]
When Sissy from Sleary's Circus joins the children's class of stodgy Mr. Gradgrind, she is promptly asked to leave, as her circus background makes her much too fanciful; Louisa & Tom Gradgrind's joyless education does not serve them well, and by the end of this cautionary tale, it's circus girl Sissy who is the moral victor.
"The Seven Poor Travellers" [1854]
"The Holly-Tree" [1855]
"Little Dorrit" serial novel [1855-57]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dorrit
chosen for Great Books
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"Wreck of the Golden Mary" [1856] with Wilkie Collins
"The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" [1857] with Wilkie Collins
"The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" [1857] with Wilkie Collins
"A House to Let" [1858]
"Going into Society" [1858]
"A Tale of Two Cities" [1859] by Charles Dickens [1812-70]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities
Book is the #1 bestselling novel worldwide, followed by "The Little Prince" [1943] by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1900-44];
the combined "The Lord of The Rings" novel [1954-55], and "The Hobbit" [].
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"The Haunted House" [1859]
"A Message From the Sea" [1860]
"Hunted Down" [1860]
"The Uncommercial Traveller" [1860-?]
"Great Expectations" novel [1860-61]
"Havisham" [Picador Nov 2013] by Ronald Frame
A prelude to "Great Expectations" that imagines how a young woman turned into a crone clothed in the tattered dress for a wedding that never happened.
"Tom Tiddler's Ground" [1861]
"Somebody's Luggage" [1862]
"Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" [1863]
"Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy" [1864]
"Our Mutual Friend" [1864-65]
"Doctor Marigold" [1865]
"Mugby Junction" [1866]
"No Thoroughfare" [1867] with Wilkie Collins
"A Holiday Romance" [1868]
"George Silverman's Explanation" [1868]
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" unfinished serial novel [1869-70]
"The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot" [1905] by Andrew Lang
http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Dickenss-Last-Plot-ebook/dp/B0082ZDZTS/
http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Dickenss-Last-Plot/dp/1162681225/
Other Works
"The Letters of Charles Dickens" [1880] by sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth & oldest daughter Mary Dickens
"The Minor Writings of Charles Dickens" [1900] by Frederic G. Kitton
http://www.amazon.com/writings-Charles-Dickens-bibliography-sketch-ebook/dp/B006O1FLT4/
http://www.amazon.com/minor-writings-charles-dickens/dp/1110513720/
"The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens" []
http://www.amazon.com/Poems-Verses-Charles-Dickens-ebook/dp/B004UJ1QJ6/
Dickens Journals Online: an online edition of Household Words and All The Year Round
Household Words [1850-59] entry at Wikipedia
All The Year Round [1859-95] entry at Wikipedia
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"The Strange Gentleman" stageplay [1836]
"The Village Coquettes" stageplay [1836]
"Is She His Wife?" stageplay [1837]
"The Lamplighter" stageplay [1838] published as novel in 1841
"Mr. Nightingale's Diary" stageplay [1851] by Charles Dickens & Mark lemon
"The Frozen Deep" stageplay [1858] written by Wilkie Collins, 'under the management of Charles Dickens'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frozen_Deep
"The Signal-Man" short story [1866]
a lonely British railway worker is haunted by the predictions of a ghost • entry at Wikipedia
filmed as "The Signalman" [BBC-TV Dec 1976] • full credits at IMDb {more details below}
"No Thoroughfare: A Drama" stageplay [1867] with Wilkie Collins
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"Select Works of Charles Dickens" in seven volumes for Logos Software [2014]
download from Logos Research Systems for $30.00 Included here not so much for anyone to purchase, but to make note of the Dickens works that they chose to convert for their Bible software customers: Volume 1): "Great Expectations" and "The Uncommercial Traveller"; Volume 2): "A Tale of Two Cities"; Volume 3): "The Adventures of Oliver Twist"; Volume 4): "Bleak House"; Volume 5): "The Old Curiosity Shop"; Volume 6): "The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club"; and Volume 7): "Sketches by Boz" |
Movies and Television
Charles Dickens credits as writer [340 titles since 1897] at Internet Movie Database
video about Dickens's works that were made into movies [3:48] at WatchMojo
watch 1/2012 B.F.I. "Dickens On Screen" promo short [3.15] online at YouTube
 | "Charles Dickens On The Screen: The Film, Television, and Video Adaptations" [1996] by Michael Pointer Scarecrow Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [4/96] for $75.84 |
When this page got too big for a speedy load, it was split into three: the main page retains his fiction and other works,
page 2 is the movies & television made from them, and page 3 contains works about Dickens the man.
jump to Page 2: top of page • silent films, 1897-1929 • sound films, 1926-2000 • sound films from 2001
Stageplays, Other Media
Charles Dickens credits at Internet Broadway Database: 42 shows since 1860
Kindle Editions
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 | "The Works of Charles Dickens: Huge Collection, 60+ Works, Dozens of Short Stories, with Illustrated Biography" for Kindle [2004]
Kindle Edition from Packard/Librainia [2004 edition] for $2.99 {sic} |
 | "Complete Works of Charles Dickens" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [3/2011] for $2.99 Sections include: The Novels (fifteen of them, with original illustrations), The Christmas Novellas, The Short Stories, The Christmas Short Stories, The Short Story Collections, The Collaborative Works, The Plays, The Poetry, and The Non-Fiction |
 | "A Guide To The Life and Work of Charles Dickens: A Brief Biography and Plot Summaries of Ten Novels" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from A.J. Cornell Publns [11/2011] for 99¢ contains "A Brief Biography of Charles Dickens" [1919] by James L. Hughes and ten plot summaries by Charles Dudley Warner from "Warner’s Synopsis of Books, Ancient and Modern" [1910], for a total of two dozen pages |
 | "The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2012]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [6/2012] for $2.99 {sic} Maybe not so 'complete': the Table of Contents lists 33 books & stories. |
 | "Scenes and Characters From The Works of Charles Dickens: Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Pictures Printed From the Original Wood Blocks" for Kindle [2013] Transcribed by Gordon Thomson Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [7/2013] for $2.99 {sic} |
 | "The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, and More" for Kindle [2013]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [8/2013] for $2.99 {sic} Fifty-five works from 1836 to 1870; four are co-written with Wilkie Collins. |
 | "Complete Works of Charles Dickens, Fully Illustrated" for Kindle [2014]
book no longer available at Amazon (2018) 1300 illustrations among what appears to be the most-comprehensive Kindle collection of works by and about Dickens: all 15 novels, with original introductions by Dickens; non-fiction from The Examiner, Household Word, All The Year Around and other newspapers; all of the Christmas stories & novellas with all their original illustrations; the complete poetry, plays, letters, and speeches; John Forster's 1875 biography; twelve other biographies – and much more |
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"Complete Works of Charles Dickens, English Writer and Social Critic - 76 Complete Works!" for Kindle [2015]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2015] for $2.99 contains 76 annotated works by Charles Dickens: "A Budget of Christmas Tales"; "A Child's History of England"; "A Christmas Carol"; "A Christmas Tree"; "A House To Let"; "A Message From The Sea"; "A Tale of Two Cities"; "All The Year Round"; "American Notes"; "Bardell v. Pickwick"; "Barnaby Rudge"; "The Battle of Life"; "Bleak House"; "Captain Boldheart & The Latin-Grammar Master"; "Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn and Other Stories"; "Charles Dickens' Children Stories"; "The Child’s Story"; "The Chimes"; "The Cricket On The Hearth"; "David Copperfield"; "Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read"; "Doctor Marigold"; "Dombey and Son"; "George Silverman's Explanation"; "Going Into Society"; "Great Expectations"; "Hard Times"; "The Haunted House"; "The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain"; "Hunted Down"; "Holiday Romance"; "The Lamplighter"; "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices"; "Legends and Lyrics (First Series)"; "Little Dorrit"; "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman"; "The Magic Fishbone"; "Martin Chuzzlewit"; "Master Humphrey's Clock"; "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy"; "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings"; "Mudfog and Other Sketches"; "Mugby Junction"; "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"; "Nicholas Nickleby"; "No Thoroughfare (stageplay)"; "Nobody’s Story"; "The Old Curiosity Shop"; "Oliver Twist"; "Our Mutual Friend"; "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"; "The Pickwick Papers"; "Pictures From Italy"; "The Poor Relation’s Story"; "The Schoolboy’s Story"; "The Seven Poor Travellers"; "The Signal-Man"; "Sketches by Boz"; "Sketches of Young Couples"; "Sketches of Young Gentlemen"; "Some Christmas Stories"; "Somebody's Luggage"; "Sunday Under Three Heads"; "Tales From Dickens"; "Three Ghost Stories"; "To Be Read At Dusk"; "Tom Tiddler’s Ground"; "The Trial for Murder"; "The Trial of William Tinkling"; "The Uncommercial Traveller"; "What Christmas Is As We Grow Older"; and "The Wreck of The Golden Mary" — plus "Miscellaneous Papers", "Reprinted Pieces", "Speeches: Literary and Social", "The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens" (1885), and a biography |
 | "Charles Dickens: The Victorian Chronicler (Very Short History)" for Kindle [2016] by Tristan Clark 31-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2/2016] for $1.99 |
Works About Charles Dickens
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Family & Friends
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England and died in 1870 at age 58 at Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent.
older sister 'Fan'
infant brother Alfred [Dec 1813-Sept 1814]
younger brother Frederick Dickens
wife Catherine Thomson 'Kate' Hogarth Dickens [1815-79] - married 1836, separated 1858
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Dickens
"The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth" [Cornell Univ Press 2011] by Lillian Nayder ISBN 978-0-8014-4787-7
sister-in-law Mary Hogarth [d. 1837]
sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth [1827-1917]
mistress actress Ellen Lawless 'Nell/Nelly' Ternan Robinson [1839-1914]
met 1857, together until 1870, she married 1876-1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ternan
"Dickens & Ellen Ternan" [Univ California Press 1952] by Ada Nisbet
"The Invisible Woman" [1990] Claire Tomalin's engaging biography of Nelly Ternan
"Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens" [11/2012]
by Robert Gottlieb - about the eleven Dickens children
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Expectations-Daughters-Charles-Dickens/dp/0374298807/
eldest son Charles Culliford Boz Dickens
eldest daughter Mary 'Mamie' Dickens [1838-96]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dickens
Kate Macready Dickens
Walter Landor Dickens
Francis Jeffrey Dickens
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens
Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens
Sir Henry Fielding Dickens [d. 1933]
Dora Annie Dickens
Edward Dickens
probable son by Ellen Ternan who died in infancy
L i n k s
Charles Dickens entry at Wikipedia
browse Charles Dickens Store {returns 550+ titles} at Amazon
Charles Dickens credits as writer [340 titles since 1897] at Internet Movie Database
character 'Charles Dickens' credits [55 titles since 1916] at Internet Movie Database
Charles Dickens credits at Internet Broadway Database: 45 shows since 1860
Charles Dickens posters category at AllPosters.com
(AllPosters.com shut down their affiliates program in June 2015)
The Dickens Fellowship [est. 1902] in London, England
Charles Dickens Museum [built circa 1807-09, open 1925], 48 Doughty Street in London, England
Friends of the Charles Dickens Museum [est. 2004] based in London, England
American Friends of the Charles Dickens Museum [] based in New York City
Dickens 2012: Celebrating The 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum [built circa 1800?, opened ?] in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page [est. 1997] based in Missouri, USA
Charles Dickens - FREE presentations in PowerPoint
The Charles Dickens Pub [] in Worthing, West Sussex, U.K.
The Charles Dickens Pub [] in Bourdeux, France
The Old Curiosity Shop: A Celebration of Charles Dickens [est.1998] website
Dickens biography & dozens of e-texts at Online Literature Network [est. 2000]
Reading Charles Dickens weblog [est. 9/2011]
Charles Dickens Dept. at The Victorian Web [est. 1987]
English-language Charles Dickens fansite [est. 1997] based in Finland
80+ portraits of Charles Dickens at the National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London
collections relating to Dickens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London
A Charles Dickens Journal - Timeline of Dickens's Life [est. 1998]
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