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Authors associated with the work/period of work of Charles Dickens.

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Authors like Charles Dickens : #1 Pearl S. Buck #2 Alexandre Dumas #3 Dylan Thomas #4 Rudyard Kipling #5 Fanny Burney #6 Henry Gilbert #7 Edith Wharton #...

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This is a production from the BBC that is a video representation of one of Dickens' stories, "The Signalman"

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The sixth offering in the BBC's 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series. Denholm Elliott stars as the troubled railway signalman who has witnessed some strange and unsettling sights and sounds along his stretch of track. Bernard Lloyd co-stars as the curious traveller who tries to make sense of the signalman's story.

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A video biography of Charles Dickens, in case the BBC biography wasn't for you.

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As part of the upcoming documentary, Chasing Charles Dickens, Professor Michael Slater, author and Dickens scholar, delves into his history with Charles Dickens. Taken from the video documentary, "Much Ado About Mormons." DVD and companion book are available at: and Charles Dickens.

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Famous quotations of Charles Dickens'

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Enjoy the best Charles Dickens Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Charles Dickens, English Novelist, Born February 7, 1812. Share with your friends.

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A comprehensive list of Charles Dickens' works.

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What exactly did Dickens write? See a list of novels and short stories by Dickens.

Novels by Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers - 1836
Oliver Twist - 1837
Nicholas Nickleby - 1838
The Old Curiosity Shop - 1840
Barnaby Rudge - 1841
Martin Chuzzlewit - 1843
Dombey and Son - 1846
David Copperfield - 1849
Bleak House - 1852
Hard Times - 1854
Little Dorrit - 1855
A Tale of Two Cities - 1859
Great Expectations - 1860
Our Mutual Friend - 1864
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 1870

Partial Listing of Short Stories and Other Works by Charles Dickens in Alphabetical Order

The Battle of Life - Published in 1846, It's the fourth of his Christmas books.

A Child's Dream of a Star - Published in 1850

The Chimes: A Goblin Story

A Christmas Carol - Published in 1843

A Christmas Tree

A Dinner at Poplar Walk

Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions - Published in 1865

A Flight

Frozen Deep - Dickens and Wilkie Collins wrote this play. In 1857 they began benefit performances. Ellen Ternan was one of the actresses hired to for the event. She became the companion of Dickens.

George Silverman's Explanation

Going into Society

The Haunted Man - Published in 1848, it's the fifth of Dickens's Christmas novellas.

A Holiday Romance - Published in 1868

The Holly-Tree

Hunted Down - Published in 1859

The Lamplighter - Published in 1838

The Long Voyage - Published in 1853 in the Household Words magazine

Master Humphrey's Clock

A Message from the Sea

Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

No Thoroughfare

Nobody's Story

Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog

Sketches by Boz - Collection of essays originally published between 1833 and 1836. They were collected and issued in book form, in February and August 1836. The two collections were consolidated and a one-volume edition was published in 1839.

The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton

Sunday under Three Heads

Tom Tiddler's Ground

Travelling Abroad - City of London Churches

The Uncommercial Traveller

Wreck of the Golden Mary

Charles Dickens was born on February 7th in 1812 and died in 1870. View a timeline of noteworthy events and facts, both professional and personal, in his life.

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What exactly did Dickens write? See a list of novels and short stories by Dickens.

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A biography of Charles Dickens from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.

His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.

Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.

As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.

He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.

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Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable. His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens.

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Photographed at age 49.