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Born in February 7, 1812 / Died in June 9, 1870 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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BOOKS

  • Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People (first series, 2 volumes, London: Macrone, 1836; second series, London: Macrone, 1937); republished as Watkins Tottle and Other Sketches Illustrative of Every Day Life and Every Day People, 2 volumes (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837) and The Tuggs's at Ramsgate and Other Sketches Illustrative of Every Day People (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837).
  • The Village Coquettes: A Comic Opera in Two Acts, as "Boz," with music by John Hullah (London: Bentley, 1836).
  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Edited by "Boz" (20 monthly parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-1837; 5 volumes, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838).
  • The Strange Gentleman: A Comic Burletta, in Two Acts, as "Boz," (London: Chapman & Hall, 1837).
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (20 monthly parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1837-1839; 1 volume, New York: Turney, 1839).
  • Sketches of Young Gentleman, Dedicated to the Young Ladies (London: Chapman & Hall, 1838).
  • Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, Edited by "Boz" 2 volumes (London: Bentley, 1838; Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838).
  • Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, by "Boz" (3 volumes, London: Bentley, 1838: 2 volumes, Philadelphia: Carey. Lea & Blanchard, 1839).
  • Sketches of Young Couples, with an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England (Being Bachelors or Widowers), on the Present Alarming Crisis (London: Chapman & Hall, 1840).
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (2 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1841; 1 volume, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841).
  • Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (London: Chapman & Hall, 1841; Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841).
  • American Notes for General Circulation (2 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1842; 1 volume, New York: Wilson, 1842).
  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 20 monthly parts (London: Chapman & Hall, 1842-1844).
  • A Christmas Carol, in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (London: Chapman & Hall, 1843; Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1844).
  • The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (London: Chapman & Hall, 1845; Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845).
  • Pictures from Italy (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846); republished as Travelling Letters Written on the Road (New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846).
  • The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; Boston: Redding, 1846).
  • The Battle of Life: A Love Story (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; Boston: Redding, 1847).
  • Dombey and Son (20 monthly parts, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848; 1 volume, New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1847).
  • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas Time (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848; Philadelphia: Althemus, 1848).
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield (20 monthly parts, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849-1850; 2 volumes, New York: Harper, 1852).
  • A Child's History of England (3 volumes, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854; 1 volume, Boston: Jenks, Hickling & Swan, 1854).
  • Bleak House (20 monthly parts, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1853; 1 volume, New York: Harper, 1853).
  • Hard Times: For These Times (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854; New York: McElrath, 1854).
  • Little Dorrit (20 monthly parts, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855-1857; 1 volume, Philadelphia: Peterson, 1857).
  • A Tale of Two Cities (London: Chapman & Hall, 1859; Philadelphia: Peterson, 1859).
  • Great Expectations (3 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1861; 2 volumes, New York: Harper, 1861).
  • The Uncommercial Traveller (London: Chapman & Hall, 1861; New York: Sheldon, 1865).
  • Our Mutual Friend (20 monthly parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-1865; 1 volume, New York: Harper, 1865).
  • Hunted Down: A Story, with Some Account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, The Poisoner (London: Hotten, 1870; Philadelphia: Peterson, 1870).
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (6 monthly parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1870; 1 volume, Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870).
  • A Child's Dream of a Star (Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1871).
  • Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular: A Comic Burletta in One Act (Boston: Osgood, 1877).
  • The Life of Our Lord (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1934).
  • The Speeches of Charles Dickens, edited by K. J. Fielding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960).
  • Uncollected Writings from Household Words, 1850-1859, 2 volumes (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968; London: Allen Lane, 1969).
  • Charles Dickens' Book of Memoranda: A Photographic and Typographic Facsimile of the Notebook Begun in January 1855, transcribed and annotated by Fred Kaplan (New York: New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1981).

Collections

  • Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens (12 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1847-1852; 3 volumes, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858).
  • The Charles Dickens Edition, 21 volumes (London: Chapman & Hall, 1867-1875).
  • The Works of Charles Dickens, 21 volumes (London: Macmillan, 1892-1925).
  • The Works of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Edition, 36 volumes (London: Chapman & Hall/New York: Scribners, 1897-1908).
  • The Works of Charles Dickens The Nonesuch Edition, edited by Arthur Waugh and others, 23 volumes (London: Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938).
  • The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens, 21 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947-1958).
  • The Clarendon Dickens, edited by Kathleen Tillotson and others, 6 volumes, ongoing (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966- ).

LETTERS

  • The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, edited by Madeline House, Graham Storey, and Kathleen Tillotson, 5 volumes, ongoing (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-).



Major collections of the surviving manuscripts of Dickens's sketches and essays are at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; the Huntington Library, San Marino, California; and the Free Library of Philadelphia, which also has a substantial collection of Dickens's letters. The most extensive collection of letters is housed at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, which has some 1,360 autograph letters by Dickens. Other important repositories for the correspondence are the Dickens House in London and the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. The Berg Collection also includes several manuscripts and one of Dickens's notebooks.