Dickens Charles: 1999 books

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...

The Old Curiosity Shop was expanded from a short tale to save Dickens's failing periodical Master Humphrey's Clock (1840-1); it is the first of his novels of which the complete manuscript, many corrected proofs, and some working notes survive. This makes it uniquely interesting to both the textual...

Included in this work are: A Christmas Carol by Dickens, The Christmas Babe by Sangster, A Western Christmas by Corning, Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Bacheller, Angela's Christmas by Schayer, The First Puritan Christmas Tree by Schayer, First New England Christmas by Butterworth, The Chimes by...

Included in this work are: A Christmas Carol by Dickens, The Christmas Babe by Sangster, A Western Christmas by Corning, Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Bacheller, Angela's Christmas by Schayer, The First Puritan Christmas Tree by Schayer, First New England Christmas by Butterworth, The Chimes by...

Bleak House, a novel by Charles Dickens, was first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853, and is considered to be one of Dickens' finest novels, containing vast, complex and engaging arrays of characters and sub-plots. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine,...

Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It...

A fantastic experiment in literary collaboration by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Ann Procter. Dickens wrote the outline for this short Christmas story, as well as the chapter 'Going into Society' and co-writing the first and last chapters with fellow author Wilkie Collins,...

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' third novel. The novel centers on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after...

Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download Bleak House [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] leak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to...

FEATURES:      •     Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations      •     A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book      •     Active Table...

A Child's History of England is a history book written for children. Dickens dedicated the book to "My own dear children, whom I hope it may help, bye and bye, to read with interest larger and better books on the same subject". The history covers the period between 50 BC and 1689, ending...

At the centre of the novel there is a long-running legal case, 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce', which connects many different characters and sub-plots. The heroine of the novel is Esther Summerson who is raised as an orphan by Miss Barbary and does not know her parents´ identity. After the death of Miss...

Charles Dickens’s puzzling—and unfinished—final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood has enthralled readers since its 1st publication in 1870. Left unfinished at the time of Dickens’s death, the ending of the book remains a mystery. The story follows Edwin Drood, a young man who has promised...