Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Great expectations by Charles Dickens ( Book )
1,695 editions published between 1843 and 2013 in 11 languages and held by 26,486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Young Pip, an orphan is working as a blacksmith when he learns that an unknown person has willed him a fortune. He is sent to London to be educated as a rich gentleman

A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens ( Book )
1,514 editions published between 1859 and 2014 in 11 languages and held by 25,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine. This edition uses the text as it appeared in its first serial publication in 1859 to convey the full scope of Dickens's vision, and includes the original illustrations by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). Richard Maxwell's introduction discusses the intricate interweaving of epic drama with personal tragedy

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ( Book )
1,367 editions published between 1000 and 2013 in 29 languages and held by 18,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ( Book )
942 editions published between 1843 and 2013 in 20 languages and held by 12,608 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

Bleak house by Charles Dickens ( Book )
955 editions published between 1051 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 12,411 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

The old curiosity shop by Charles Dickens ( Book )
735 editions published between 1800 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 10,078 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

Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people by Charles Dickens ( Book )
726 editions published between 1850 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 9,635 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London

The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens ( Book )
1,005 editions published between 1820 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 8,947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A report of travels and adventures by Pickwickians who visit the nooks and crannies of England

Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens ( Book )
674 editions published between 1840 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 8,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
At The Center of Martin Chuzzlewit -- the novel Angus Wilson called "one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories"--Is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations. now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of Iris great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited Iris grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl hired as Iris companion. Though she has been made to understand she will not inherit a penny, she remains old Chuzzlewit's only ally. As the viperish relations and hangers-on close in on him, we meet some of Dickens's most marvelous characters -- among them Mr. Pecksniff (whose name has entered the language as a synonym for ultimate hypocrisy and self-importance); the fabulously evil Jonas Chuzzlewit; the strutting reptile Tigg Montague; and the ridiculous, terrible, comical Sairey Gamp. Reluctantly heading for America in search of opportunity, the penniless young Martin goes west, rides a riverboat, and is overtaken by bad company and mortal danger -- while the battle for his grandfather's gold reveals new depths of family treachery, cunning, and ruthlessness. And in scene after wonderful scene of conflict and suspense, of high excitement and fierce and hilarious satire, Dickens's huge saga of greed versus decency comes to its magnificent climax

A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens ( Book )
237 editions published between 1843 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 6,289 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future