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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The novel is a historical fiction set against the turbulence of the French Revolution and its echo in…
Great Expectations
The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…
Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
The second volume of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist continues the grim bildungsroman of an orphan boy thrust…
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…
Bleak House
Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The novel unfolds as a tangled tableau of Victorian intrigue, set against the looming stone tower of an…
Oliver Twist
The novel opens in a bleak, unnamed town where a workhouse, “anciently common to most towns”, cradles the…
David Copperfield
The novel is an autobiographical‑style bildungsroman that begins with a self‑conscious narrator announcing…
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856
The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1, 1833‑1856 gathers the novelist’s extensive correspondence, beginning…
Nicholas Nickleby
The novel opens amid a chaotic coach ride, where the heavy‑handed guard and the impatient coachman jostle a…
Hard Times
Hard Times is a social‑problem novel set in an industrial England that treats its characters as data points…
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870
The second volume of Charles Dickens’s correspondence gathers letters written between 1857 and 1870, chiefly…
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870
The third volume of The Letters of Charles Dickens covers the period from 1836 to 1870, gathering together…
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
The Old Curiosity Shop
Our Mutual Friend
Little Dorrit
Dombey and Son
American Notes
A Christmas Carol
Martin Chuzzlewit
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Dickens
Een Kerstlied in Proza
