Dickens Charles: 1999 books

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download A Christmas Carol [ Free Audiobooks Download ] A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death on 9 June 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who is in love...

* Book : The Battle of Life * Biography * Bibliography The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man. It is noteworthy...

* Book : The Child's Story * Biography * Bibliography "Everyone begins life's journey as a child. From one of the world's most beloved writers comes this memorable parable of life's transitions. Originally published by Charles Dickens in the mid-1800s, "The Child's Story"...

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel. The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.

The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens's first novel. Dickens, a young writer, 24 years old, was working as a Parliamentary reporter and a roving journalist; a collection of his "colour" sketches mainly of London life had been published as Sketches by Boz. A firm of London publishers, Messrs....

Charles Dickens was english writer, novelist and essayist. The classic of the world literature. The Dickens' creations are reffered to heights of realism, but in his novels he reflects sentimental and fabulous origins. The novel "Great Expectations" tells a story of a boy Pip. His parents...

Charles Dickens was an English writer, social critic, author of numerous short stories, novels, plays. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. “What Christmas is as we Grow Older” is the Christmas essay, written...

‘Marley was dead to begin with.’ So begins one of the best-loved and famous Christmas stories that has been filmed, inspired musicals, and plays, and still entertains with a timeless story of transformation from meanness to generosity and kindness. A sensational success when it was published,...

'The Perils of Certain English Prisoners' was the 'Household Words' Extra Christmas Number for 1857, and was co-authored by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Dickens and his co-author Wilkie Collins transfered the theme of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to South America. The main story takes place in...

Central to the plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he is an opium addict. And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy’s fiancée and to plot the murder of...

Known and loved around the world for his vast and sprawling novels, Charles Dickens relished the opportunity to experiment with his shorter writings, investigating hitherto unexplored themes and engaging in uncharacteristic narrative techniques. This anthology presents some of the beloved storyteller's...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in...

Charles Dickens ranks amongst the greatest novelists of all time. This detective story was extracted from Chapter VIII of Bleak House, and is a literal rendering of Dickens' own visits to the the London slums. Many of the crime and detective stories of the Victorians, particularly those dating back...