Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
Works: | 30,208 works in 112,779 publications in 61 languages and 1,289,140 library holdings |
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Genres: | Fiction History Bildungsromans Domestic fiction Christmas fiction Juvenile works Ghost stories Historical fiction Christmas stories Autobiographical fiction |
Subject Headings: | Novelists, English Authors, English |
Roles: | Author, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Contributor, Author of screenplay, Other, Creator, Librettist, Honoree, Dedicatee, Attributed name, Originator, Author of introduction, Lyricist, Composer, Adapter, Conceptor, Translator, Performer, win, Former owner, Illustrator, Collector, Inscriber, Printer, ath, 070, Dubious author, Author in quotations or text abstracts, Correspondent, Scenarist, Narrator |
Classifications: | PZ3.D55, 823.8 |
- Charles Dickens by Harold Bloom( Book )
- Charles Dickens : his tragedy and triumph by Edgar Johnson( Book )
- Charles Dickens : [a life defined by writing] by Michael Slater( Book )
- The life of Charles Dickens by John Forster( Book )
- Becoming Dickens : the invention of a novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst( )
- A ghost tale for Christmas time by Mary Pope Osborne( Book )
- Dickens and popular entertainment by Paul Schlicke( )
- What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England by Daniel Pool( Book )
- After Dickens : reading, adaptation and performance by John Glavin( )
- Charles Dickens : the critical heritage by Charles Dickens( )
- The body economic : life, death, and sensation in political economy and the Victorian novel by Catherine Gallagher( )
- Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley( Book )
- Dickens : a biography by Fred Kaplan( Book )
- Dickens : his work and his world by Michael Rosen( Book )
- Dickens and the daughter of the house by Hilary Margo Schor( )
- Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture by Jay Clayton( )
- American notes for general circulation by Charles Dickens( )
- Dickens and the politics of the family by Catherine Waters( )
- Dickens by Peter Ackroyd( Book )
- The moral art of Dickens : essays by Barbara Hardy( )


2,731 editions published between 1800 and 2022 in 28 languages and held by 33,299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine
2,280 editions published between 1800 and 2022 in 21 languages and held by 32,885 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations
3,021 editions published between 1800 and 2021 in 34 languages and held by 30,535 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work
3,114 editions published between 1837 and 2022 in 47 languages and held by 29,769 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London
2,351 editions published between 1457 and 2021 in 34 languages and held by 24,314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future
1,446 editions published between 1800 and 2021 in 12 languages and held by 18,316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human love
1,311 editions published between 1800 and 2020 in 12 languages and held by 14,626 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by lonliness and misfortune
1,283 editions published between 1800 and 2020 in 19 languages and held by 14,413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Thomas Gradgrind, a practical man, brings up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative and emotional sides of their natures with devastating consequences
1,257 editions published between 1 and 2021 in 11 languages and held by 14,200 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity. Annotation. The story of 'Little Nell' gripped the nation when it first appeared. Described as a 'tragedy of sorrows', it tells of Nell uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes many shapes, the most fascinating of which is the stunted, lecherous Quilp. He is Nell's tormenter and destroyer, and it is his demonic energy that dominates the book
1,275 editions published between 1800 and 2022 in 13 languages and held by 14,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue
1,098 editions published between 1800 and 2021 in 7 languages and held by 12,836 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Harmon will inherit a fortune if he marries a girl whose peronality has been afffected by her wealth, and friends and events conspire to prove her true worth
1,328 editions published between 1800 and 2020 in 10 languages and held by 11,587 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book is about the social ills of greed and selfishness in England and America in the late 19th century
533 editions published between 1800 and 2020 in 11 languages and held by 11,088 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Introduces an array of characters, from the sinister to the comic, and moves to a haunting climax in an atmospheric murder mystery that features the seemingly benevolent John Jasper, a secret opium addict, and his relationship with his newly engaged nephew, Edwin Drood
1,154 editions published between 1800 and 2020 in 10 languages and held by 10,584 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set at the time of the Gordon anti-Catholic riots of 1780, this is Dickens's powerful, atmospheric novel of madness, murder, and lurid mob violence. It is also a tale of love thwarted by the designs of Geoffrey Haredale and the villain Sir John Chester, and the heroism of Edward Chester in rescuing the innocent Emma
1,166 editions published between 1800 and 2020 in 7 languages and held by 9,649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recounts the travels and comic experiences of Samuel Pickwick, his friends, and the members of his club
1,260 editions published between 1836 and 2021 in 16 languages and held by 7,861 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Relates the various activities and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club
620 editions published between 1900 and 2021 in 5 languages and held by 6,940 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future
666 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 6,795 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas
639 editions published between 1838 and 2020 in 15 languages and held by 6,621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Nicholas Nickleby is the son of a poor country gentleman, and has to make his own way in the world. He first goes as usher to Mr. Squeers, schoolmaster at Dotheboys Hall, in Yorkshire, but leaves in disgust with the tyranny of Squeers and his wife, especially to a poor boy named Smike. Smike runs away from his school to follow Nicholas, and remains his humble follower till death. At Portsmouth, Nicholas joins the theatrical company of Mr. Crummies, but leaves the profession for other adventures. He falls in with the brothers Cheeryble, who make him their clerk; in this post he rises to success as a merchant, and ultimately marries Madeline Bray." Benét Reader's Ency
589 editions published between 1800 and 2018 in 5 languages and held by 6,516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Greed makes Ralph Nickleby, a shrewd businessman, overlook the welfare of his nephew Nicholas, and niece Kate


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- Browne, Hablot Knight 1815-1882 Other Artist Contributor Author of introduction Illustrator Author Editor Translator
- Scrooge, Ebenezer
- Eliot, George 1819-1880 Other
- Collins, Wilkie 1824-1889 Other Correspondent Adapter Recipient Bibliographic antecedent Attributed name Author Editor
- Slater, Michael Other Author of introduction Author Editor
- Cruikshank, George 1792-1878 Other Artist Translator Illustrator Printer Author Contributor Collector
- Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England)
- British Broadcasting Corporation Producer
- Letts, Barry Producer Director
- Collins, Philip 1923-2007 Other Author of introduction Author Editor Compiler
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