Charles Dickens Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Pickwick Papers (1837)
  2. The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838)
  3. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby (1839)
  4. Barnaby Rudge (1841)
  5. Master Humphrey’s Clock (1841)
  6. Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
  7. A Christmas Carol (1843)
  8. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
  9. The Chimes (1844)
  10. The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
  11. The Battle of Life (1846)
  12. Dombey and Son (1848)
  13. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848)
  14. David Copperfield (1850)
  15. Bleak House (1853)
  16. Hard Times (1854)
  17. A Child’s History of England (1854)
  18. Little Dorrit (1855)
  19. The Hanged Man’s Bride (1857)
  20. A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
  21. Great Expectations (1861)
  22. Our Mutual Friend (1865)
  23. No Thoroughfare (With: Wilkie Collins) (1867)
  24. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

Charles Dickens Short Story Collection Books In Publication Order

  1. Sketches by Boz (1836)
  2. Master Humphrey’s clock Volume 2 (1841)
  3. To Be Read at Dusk (1852)
  4. The Poor Traveller/ Boots at the Holly-tree Inn (1858)
  5. Reprinted Pieces (1861)
  6. Mudfog and other papers contributed to Bentley’s miscellany (1880)
  7. The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984)

Wilkie Collins Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Last Stage Coachman (By:Wilkie Collins) (1843)
  2. Mr. Wray’s Cash Box (By:Wilkie Collins) (1852)
  3. A Terribly Strange Bed (By:Wilkie Collins) (1852)
  4. The Nun’s Story of Gabriel’s Marriage (By:Wilkie Collins) (1853)
  5. The Dream Woman (By:Wilkie Collins) (1855)
  6. The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange (By:Wilkie Collins) (1855)
  7. After Dark (By:Wilkie Collins) (1856)
  8. A House to Let (By:Wilkie Collins) (1858)
  9. The Haunted House (By:Wilkie Collins) (1859)
  10. The Queen of Hearts (By:Wilkie Collins) (1859)
  11. The Cauldron of Oil (By:Wilkie Collins) (1861)
  12. No Thoroughfare (With: Wilkie Collins) (1867)
  13. The Dead Alive (By:Wilkie Collins) (1873)
  14. Miss or Mrs.? (By:Wilkie Collins) (1873)
  15. John Jago’s Ghost (By:Wilkie Collins) (1874)
  16. The Haunted Hotel (By:Wilkie Collins) (1879)
  17. My Lady’s Money (By:Wilkie Collins) (1879)
  18. Who Killed Zebedee? (By:Wilkie Collins) (1880)
  19. Miss Gwilt (By:Wilkie Collins) (1880)
  20. The Yellow Mask (By:Wilkie Collins) (1887)
  21. Sights A-Foot (By:Wilkie Collins) (1887)
  22. Black and White (By:Wilkie Collins) (2015)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Great Law and Order Stories (1990)
  2. Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021)

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Charles Dickens Books Overview

The Pickwick Papers

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The Pickwick Papers‘ is one of the earliest works of Dickens. It consists of the series of events occurring in the ‘Pickwick Club’, founded by Samuel Pickwick. He along with his three companions goes through comical and ludicrous adventures leading to a disastrous misunderstanding. Based in the19th Century England, the book explores social issues, true friendship and human behavior. Superb!

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The Adventures of Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. One of Dickens’s most popular novels, Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’ After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves Oliver encounters the extraordinary and vibrant characters who have captured readers imaginations for more than 150 years: the loathsome Fagin, the beautiful and tragic Nancy, the crafty Artful Dodger, and perhaps one of the greatest villains of all time the terrifying Bill Sikes. Rife with Dickens s disturbing descriptions of street life, the novel is buoyed by the purity of the orphan Oliver. Though he is treated with cruelty and surrounded by coarseness for most of his life, his pious innocence leads him at last to salvation and the shocking discovery of his true identity. Features illustrations by George Cruikshank. Jill Muller was born in England and educated at Mercy College and Columbia University, and currently teaches at Mercy College and Columbia University. She is working on a book on the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, to be published by Routledge.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby

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Barnaby Rudge

POLYTHEISM AND MONOTHEISMCHAPTER ITIJE SEAT OF THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTThe doctrine of the Correlation of Force The planes of existence The individual spontaneous force lifts from one to the other Mode of cellular growth Functions of the spontaneous force Differentiation of cellular action Nervous apparatus Keflex, consensual, and intelligent action Nervous structure in man Tho horaologues in lower organism9 The functions of the cerebral ganglia Mental action a resolution of force Ideas arc formed hy force becoming latent Instinct The seat of the emotions Tho scat of tho intelligence The importance of the feelings The feelings are the social organ, the intellect is the individual organ The co ordination of intellect and feelings is the province of religion. FORCE is that winch produces or resists motion.1 It is indestructible. When it has ceased to exhibit itself in one form, it has not ceased to be, but it has assumed expression in some other form.A force cannot originateTable of Contents CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; THE SEAT OF THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT; The doctrine of the Correlation of Force The planes of existence The individual spontaneous force lifts from one to the other Mode of cellular growth Functions of the spontaneous force Differentiation of cellular action Nervous apparatus Reflex, consensual, and intelligent action JNervous structure in man The homologies in lower organisms The functions of the cerebral ganglia Mental action a resolution of force Ideas are formed by force becoming latent; Instinct The seat of the emotions The seat of the intelligence The importance of the feelings The feelings are the social organ, the intellect is the individual organ The co ordination of intellect and feelings i3 the province of religion Page 1; CHAPTER II; THE RELIGIOUS INSTINCTS; Difference between inorganic and organic substances Mode in which life functionates

Master Humphrey’s Clock

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Old Curiosity Shop

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Initially making an appearance in a serialized form, Dickens’ ‘The Old Curiosity Shop‘ was published in 1841 as a book. The narrative revolves around the life of a young girl, Nell, and her arduous journey to flee the villains. The cunnings of these nefarious characters and the extreme lust of wealth that leads them to the lowest levels of humanity are amply portrayed. An archetypal tale that portrays the eternal battle between good and evil, the narrative moves one to tears as well as laughter!

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A Christmas Carol

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‘This is a new scan of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ best-loved book, one that continues to be popular today, over a century and half later. It was created from a photographic facsimile of an early printing of the first edition of 1843, published by K.S. Giniger Company in 1956. Thus the text may diverge slightly from modern editions. Edgar Johnson noted in the introduction to the facsimile edition that ‘It is not the very earliest state, but the form of the first edition that Dickens himself preferred.’ There are a few quirks in this edition: e.g. the title of the first chapter is ‘Stave I,’ but successive chapter numbers are spelled out.

Dickens’ tale of greed and redemption is a heart-warming tale of a Christmas miracle. But there is a dead serious purpose here. Dickens takes the mantle of an Old Testament prophet, issuing a stern warning to the capitalist class that they needed to mend their ways, or things would get a lot worse. It is also documentation of a now-lost world. Dickens shows us a panorama of 19th century English society, both high and low: bustling street scenes, a dingy rag-and-bones shop, a high-spirited Christmas dance.

Ironically, in spite of the message against greed, A Christmas Carol was actually written by Dickens during a sales slump, solely to make money. He penned the short pot-boiler in a whirlwind six weeks, so that he could get it on the shelves before Christmas. It went on sale on the 19th of December, 1843, and far exceeded expectations. The book went through six printings before Christmas day, 1843. Reviewers also loved it. The critic Francis Jeffrey said: ‘You have done more good…
by this little publication…
than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842.’ Thackeray said ‘It seems to me…
a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness.’ It continues to be a beloved classic, as much a part of the holiday season as Christmas trees, Nativity displays, and Santa Claus.’ Quote from sacred-texts. com

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Publisher’s Preface; Preface; Marley’s Ghost; The First Of The Three Spirits; The Second Of The Three Spirits; The Last Of The Spirits; The End Of It

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT CHARLES DICKENS BORN I 8 I Z DIED 1870 Editors x o t e Martin Chuzzlewit was fist Published in its monthly numbers during 1843 and 1844. Althozcgh mitten at a time of anxiety and disappointment, the authors o inion of it was l think Chuzzlewit in a hzcndved points immeasurably the best of my stories. Not all of Dickenss admirers shared this opiniolz. Nevertheless, the books rich humour, alzd also its sative of hypomisy, of the old type of hired zursinga, nd of a phase of the American character, give us more familiar peo9le like Mr. Pecksnif and Mrs. Gum and their sayings than many others of the azcthors morks. The present editiolz is prirtted from the one carefully corrected by the Author in 1867 and 1868. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT BY CHARLES DICKENS P R E F A C E WHAT is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is con monly called a long sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non existent to a short sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers whether it is always the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience, more curious than the speculation I have just set down. It is this I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some counterpart of that character has incredulously asked me Now really, did I ever really, see one like it All the Pecksniff family upon earth are quite agreed, I believe, that Mr. Pecksniff is an exaggeration, and that no such character ever existed. I will not offer any plea on his behalf to so powerful and genteel a body, but will make a remark on the character of Jonas Chuzzlewit. I conceive that the sordid coarseness and brutality of Jonas would be unnatural, if there had been nothing in his early education, and in the precept and example always before him, to engender and develope the vices that make him odious. But so born and so bred admired for that which made him hateful, and j u’s t e d from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice I claim him as the legitimate issue of the father upon whom those vices are seen to recoil. And I submit that their recoil upon that old man, in his unhonoured age, is not a mere piece of poetical justice, but is the extreme exposition of a direct truth. I make this comment and solicit the readers attention to it in his or her consideration of this tale, because nothing is more common in real life than a want of profitable reflection on the causes of many vices and crimes that awaken general horror. What is substantially true of families in this respect, is true of a whole commonwealth. As we sow, we reap. Let the reader go into the childrens side of any prison in England, or. I grieve to add, of many workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or are creatures whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. 7 8 Preface The American portion of this story is in no other respect a caricature, than as it is an exhibition, for the most part, Mr. Bevan excepted of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character of that side which was, four and twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such travellers as Young Martin and Mark Tapley…

The Chimes

The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of ‘Christmas Books’: five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812 1870, also known as ‘Boz’, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language’s greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public. Among his best known works are Sketches by Boz 1836, The Pickwick Papers 1837, Oliver Twist 1838, Nicholas Nickleby 1839, Barnaby Rudge 1841, A Christmas Carol 1843, Martin Chuzzlewit 1844, David Copperfield 1850, Bleak House 1853, Little Dorrit 1857, A Tale of Two Cities 1859, Great Expectations 1861 and Our Mutual Friend 1865.

The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens’ five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol 1843, The Chimes 1844, The Battle of Life 1846, and The Haunted Man 1847. Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812 1870, also known as ‘Boz’, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language’s greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public. Among his best known works are Sketches by Boz 1836, The Pickwick Papers 1837, Oliver Twist 1838, Nicholas Nickleby 1839, Barnaby Rudge 1841, A Christmas Carol 1843, Martin Chuzzlewit 1844, David Copperfield 1850, Bleak House 1853, Little Dorrit 1857, A Tale of Two Cities 1859, Great Expectations 1861 and Our Mutual Friend 1865.

The Battle of Life

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Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, but travelled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing Dombey and Son. Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812 1870, also known as ‘Boz’, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language’s greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public. Among his best known works are Sketches by Boz 1836, The Pickwick Papers 1837, Oliver Twist 1838, Nicholas Nickleby 1839, Barnaby Rudge 1841, A Christmas Carol 1843, Martin Chuzzlewit 1844, David Copperfield 1850, Bleak House 1853, Little Dorrit 1857, A Tale of Two Cities 1859, Great Expectations 1861 and Our Mutual Friend 1865.

David Copperfield

1872. Includes 61 illustrations. Dickens, English novelist, is considered by many to be the greatest of his country. His works were known to indict society’s mistreatment and abuse of the poor, especially children. Charles Dickens once referred to his novel David Copperfield as his favorite child. Perhaps more than any other Dickens novel, David Copperfield is a drama of memory and imagination, drawing most closely from Charles Dickens’s own life. Its hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens’s power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens’s exultant imagination…
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Bleak House

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Often considered Charles Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House blends together several literary genres detective fiction, romance, melodrama, and satire to create an unforgettable portrait of the decay and corruption at the heart of English law and society in the Victorian era. Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs. As Dickens takes us through the case s history, he presents a cast of characters as idiosyncratic and memorable as any he ever created, including the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who hides a shocking secret about an illegitimate child and a long lost love; Mr. Bucket, one of the first detectives to appear in English fiction; and the hilarious Mrs. Jellyby, whose endless philanthropy has left her utterly unconcerned about her own family. As a question of inheritance becomes a question of murder, the novel s hero*ine, Esther Summerson, struggles to discover the truth about her birth and her unknown mother s tragic life. Can the resilience of her love transform a Bleak House? And more devastatingly will justice prevail? Tatiana M. Holway received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. A specialist in Victorian literature and society, she has published a number of articles on Dickens and has taught at a variety of undergraduate institutions.

Hard Times

Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is one of a number of state of the nation novels published around the same time, another being North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures that some people were experiencing. The novel is unusual in that it is not set in London as was Dickens’ wont, but in the fictitious Victorian industrial town of Coketown. It has met mixed critical response from a diverse range of critics, such as F.R. Leavis, George Bernard Shaw, and Thomas Macaulay. This was usually for Dickens’ treatment of trade unions, coupled with post Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalistic mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era of Britain. Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812 1870, also known as ‘Boz’, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language’s greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public. Among his best known works are Sketches by Boz 1836, The Pickwick Papers 1837, Oliver Twist 1838, Nicholas Nickleby 1839, Barnaby Rudge 1841, A Christmas Carol 1843, Martin Chuzzlewit 1844, David Copperfield 1850, Bleak House 1853, Little Dorrit 1857, A Tale of Two Cities 1859, Great Expectations 1861 and Our Mutual Friend 1865.

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens’s ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor’s prisons in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author’s own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens’s other critiques in this particular novel are about other issues with regards to the social safety net: industry, and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury as figured in the fictional ‘Circumlocution Office’ Bk. 1, Ch. 10 ; and the separation of people based on the lack of intercourse between the clas*ses. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e Books from MobileReference Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation TM All fiction books are only $0. 99. All collections are only $5. 99Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices Search for any title: enter mobi shortened MobileReference and a keyword; for example: mobi ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible Modern Translation, Mormon Church’s Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Co*cktails, Astrology Reference: The World’s Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals

A Tale of Two Cities

Enter the world of 1000 A.D., when Vikings, Moors, and barbarians battled kings and popes for the fate of Europe. As the millennium approached, Europeans feared the world would end. The old order was crumbling, and terrifying and confusing new ideas were gaining hold in the populace. Random and horrific violence seemed to sprout everywhere without warning, and without apparent remedy. And, in fact, when the millennium arrived the apocalypse did take place; a world did end, and a new world arose from the ruins. In 950, Ireland, England, and France were helpless against the ravages of the seagoing Vikings; the fierce and strange Hungarian Magyars laid waste to Germany and Italy; the legions of the Moors ruled Spain and threatened the remnants of Charlemagne’s vast domain. The papacy was corrupt and decadent, overshadowed by glorious Byzantium. Yet a mere fifty years later, the gods of the Vikings were dethroned, the shamans of the Magyars were massacred, the magnificent Moorish caliphate disintegrated: The sign of the cross held sway from Spain in the West to Russia in the East. James Reston, Jr.’s enthralling saga of how the Christian kingdoms converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance brings to life unforgettable historical characters who embodied the struggle for the soul of Europe. From the righteous fury of the Viking queen Sigrid the Strong Minded, who burned unwanted suitors alive; to the brilliant but too cunning Moor Al Mansor the Illustrious Victor; to the aptly named English king Ethelred the Unready; to the abiding genius of the age, Pope Sylvester II warrior kings and concubine empresses, maniacal warriors and religious zealots, bring this stirring period to life. The Last Apocalypse is a book rich in personal historical detail, flavored with the nearly magical sensibility of an apocalyptic age. James Reston, Jr., is the author of ten previous books, including Galileo: A Life and Sherman’s March and Vietnam. He has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. His television work includes three ‘Frontline’ documentaries, including ‘Eighty Eight Seconds in Greensboro.’ The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars provided him with a Visiting Fellowship during the course of his work on this book. Reston lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

I give Pirrip as my father s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them for their days were long before the days of photographs, my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, ‘Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,’ I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine, who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle, I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.

Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.

‘Hold your noise!’ cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. ‘Keep still, you little devil, or I ll cut your throat!’

A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.

Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend is a satiric masterpiece about money. The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later work: the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches. Among those caught up in the ruthless forces of change in Dickens’s London are the archetypal innocent Noddy Boffin, who ‘inherits’ a dustheap where the trash of the rich is thrown; Silas Wegg, a grotesque, one legged man with unlimited fantasies of grandeur and power; Mr. Veneering, Member of Parliament, whose house, furnishings, servants, carriage, and baby are all ‘bran new’; and Alfred and Sophronia Lammle, who marry one another because each wrongly believes the other is rich. The social themes of Our Mutual Friend having to do with the treatment of the poor, education, representative government, even the inheritance laws are informed and brought into coherence by the underlying presence of the Thames, signifying the perpetual flow of life into death, and acting as agent of retribution and regeneration too, as a kind of river god in fact, in a novel in which no other god is very present. Each Week we will be adding exciting new additions to our E book Sections. Check back frequently so you don’t miss these much loved stories at fantastic savings.

No Thoroughfare (With: Wilkie Collins)

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan’s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one. It is so, for cymbals clash, and the Sultan goes by to his palace in long procession. Ten thousand scimitars flash in the sunlight, and thrice ten thousand dancing girls strew flowers. Then, follow white elephants caparisoned in countless gorgeous colors, and infinite in number and attendants. Still the Cathedral Tower rises in the background, where it cannot be, and still no writhing figure is on the grim spike. Stay! Is the spike so low a thing as the rusty spike on the top of a post of an old bedstead that has tumbled all awry? Some vague period of drowsy laughter must be devoted to the consideration of this possibility. Shaking from head to foot, the man whose scattered consciousness has thus fantastically pieced itself together, at length rises, supports his trembling frame upon his arms, and looks around. He is in the meanest and closest of small rooms. Through the ragged window curtain, the light of early day steals in from a miserable court. He lies, dressed, across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weight upon it. Lying, also dressed and also across the bed, not longwise, are a Chinaman, a Lascar, and a haggard woman. The two first are in a sleep or stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it. And as she blows, and shading it with her lean hand, concentrates its red spark of light, it serves in the dim morning as a lamp to show him what he sees of her. ‘Another?’ says this woman, in a querulous, rattling whisper. ‘Have another?’

Sketches by Boz

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Sketches by Boz‘ is Dickens’ earliest work in fiction writing. He started his career by writing humorous sketches using the pen name ‘Boz’. This collection was first published in 1836 and portrays life, people and their attitudes. These sketches are a reflection of the genius that was Dickens.

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Master Humphrey’s clock Volume 2

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to uriositg CHAPTER THE FORTY FOURTH. The throng of people hurried by, in two opposite streams, with no symptom of cessation or exhaustion; intent upon their own affairs; and undisturbed in their business speculations, by the roar of carts and waggons laden with clashing wares, the slipping of horses’ feet upon the wet and greasy pavement, the rattling of the rain on windows and umbrella tops, the jostling of the more impatient passengers, and all the noise and tumult of a crowded street in the high tide of its occupation : while the two poor strangers, stunned and bewildered by the hurry they beheld but had no part in, looked mournfully on ; feeling amidst the crowd a solitude which has no parallel but in the thirst of the shipwrecked mariner, who, tost to and fro upon the billows of a mighty ocean, his red eyes blinded by looking on the water which hems him in on every side, has not one drop to cool his burning tongue. They withdrew into a low archway for shelter from the rain, and watched the faces of those who passed, to find in one among them a ray of encouragement or hope. Some frowned, some smiled, some muttered to themselves; some made slight gestures, as if anticipating the conversation in which they would shortly be engaged; some wore the cunning look of bargaining and plotting, some were anxious and eager, some slow and dull; in some countenances were written gain; in others loss. It was like being in the confidence of ail these people to stand quietly there, looking into their faces as they flitted past. In busy places, where each man has an obje’ct of his own, and feels assured that every other man has his, his character and purpose are written broadly in his face. In the public walks and lounges of a town, people go to see and to be seen, and there the sam…

To Be Read at Dusk

Charles Dickens 1812 1870 has produced some of the most memorable writings in the English language, including such well known works as ‘A Christmas Carol, Sketches by Boz, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Daivid Copperfield, Great Expectations, and The Pickwick Papers.

Dickens is famous for the characters he created and his descriptions. A man of tremendous energy, he spent hours a day walking the London streets from which his characters and scenes came.

Most of Dickens’ work was in magazine serial form. Quiet Vision publishes not only Dickens’ well known works but also many of his lesser known but still well crafted works.

The Poor Traveller/ Boots at the Holly-tree Inn

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Reprinted Pieces

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Mr. Wray’s Cash Box (By:Wilkie Collins)

William Wilkie Collins 1824 1889 was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non fiction work. His best known works are The Woman in White 1860, The Moonstone 1868, Armadale 1866 and No Name 1862. His works were classified at the time as ‘sensation novels’, a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His novel, No Name combined social commentary the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents with a densely plotted revenge thriller. Amongst his other works are: Basil 1852, Hide and Seek 1854, After the Dark 1856, The Frozen Deep 1857, The Queen of Hearts 1859, Man and Wife 1870, The New Magdalen 1873, The Law and the Lady 1875, The Two Destinies 1876 and A Rogue’s Life 1879.

A Terribly Strange Bed (By:Wilkie Collins)

Before I begin, by the aid of my wife’s patient attention and ready pen, to relate any of the stories which I have heard at various times from persons whose likenesses I have been employed to take, it will not be amiss if I try to secure the reader’s interest in the following pages by briefly explaining how I became possessed of the narrative matter which they contain. Features Intuitive navigation. Searchable and interlinked. Open the book you want to read with one click. Make bookmarks, notes, highlights. Text annotation and mark up. Access the e Book anytime, anywhere. More e Books from MobileReference Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation TM All fiction books are only $0. 99. All collections are only $5. 99Designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices Search for any title: enter mobi shortened MobileReference and a keyword; for example: mobi ShakespeareTo view all books, click on the MobileReference link next to a book title Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible Modern Translation, Mormon Church’s Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Co*cktails, Astrology Reference: The World’s Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals

The Dream Woman (By:Wilkie Collins)

William Wilkie Collins 1824 1889 was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non fiction work. His best known works are The Woman in White 1860, The Moonstone 1868, Armadale 1866 and No Name 1862. His works were classified at the time as ‘sensation novels’, a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His novel, No Name combined social commentary the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents with a densely plotted revenge thriller. Amongst his other works are: Basil 1852, Hide and Seek 1854, After the Dark 1856, The Frozen Deep 1857, The Queen of Hearts 1859, Man and Wife 1870, The New Magdalen 1873, The Law and the Lady 1875, The Two Destinies 1876, and A Rogue’s Life 1879.

A House to Let (By:Wilkie Collins)

Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London.

Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by a nearby ‘house to let,’ she charges her two warring attendants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret behind its seeming desertedness. Rivals to the end, they each seek to outdo the other to satisfy their mistress’ curiosity; however, it is only after repeated false starts-and by way of elaborate tales of men lost at sea, circus performers, and forged death certificates- that they happen upon the truth. Charles Dickens 1812 70 is one of England’s most important literary figures. His works enjoyed enormous success in his day and are still among the most popular and widely read classics of all time.

The Haunted House (By:Wilkie Collins)

Compiled by Charles Dickens, and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contributors, this rediscovered work is an ingenious collaborative tale of the supernatural with indelible touches of pure Dickensian comedy. Foreword by Peter Ackroyd.

When the narrator spies a deserted house from his railway carriage, he determines to take up residence. But local legend has it that this is a haunted house, and no servant will dare enter employment. Refusing to be thwarted, he instead invites a number of acquaintances to join him, commissioning each with the task of routing out any supernatural inhabitants. As they gather together on twelfth night, each recounts his version of the ghostly activities

The Queen of Hearts (By:Wilkie Collins)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, CHAPTER I. OURSELVES. We were three quiet, lonely old men, and She was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits’ end what to do with her. A word about ourselves, first of all a necessary word to explain the singular situation of our fair young guest. We are three brothers; and we live in a barbarous, dismal old house called The Glen Tower. Our place of abode stands in a hilly, lonesome district of South Wales. No such thing as a line of railway runs any where near us. No gentleman’s seat is within an easy drive of us. We are at an unspeakably inconvenient distance from a town, and the village to which we send for our letters is three miles off. My eldest brother, Owen, was brought up to the Church. All the prime of his life was passed in a populous London parish. For more years than I now like to reckon up, he worked unremittingly, in defiance of failing health and adverse fortune, amid the multitudinous misery of the London poor; and he would, in all probability, have sacrificed his life to his duty long before the present time if The Glen Tower had not come into his possession through two unexpected deaths in the elder and richer branch of our family. This opening to himof a place of rest and refuge saved his life. No man ever drew breath who better deserved the gifts of for tune; for no man, I sincerely believe, more tender of others, more diffident of himself, more gentle, more generous, and more simple hearted than Owen, ever walked this earth. My second brother, Morgan, started in life as a doctor, and learned all that his profession could teach him at home and abroad. He realized a moderate independence by his practice, beginning in one of our large northern towns, and ending as a physician in London; but, although h…

The Dead Alive (By:Wilkie Collins)

On the evidence of The Dead Alive, Scott Turow writes in his foreword that Wilkie Collins might well be the first author of a legal thriller. Here is the lawyer out of sorts with his profession; the legal process gone awry; even a touch of romance to soften the rigors of the law. And here, too, recast as fiction, is the United States’ first documented wrongful conviction case. Side by side with the novel, this book presents the real life legal thriller Collins used as his model the story of two brothers, Jesse and Stephen Boorn, sentenced to death in Vermont in 1819 for the murder of their brother in law, and belatedly exonerated when their ‘victim’ showed up alive and well in New Jersey in 1820.

Rob Warden, one of the nation’s most eloquent and effective advocates for the wrongly convicted, reconsiders the facts of the Boorn case for what they can tell us about the systemic flaws that produced this first known miscarriage of justice flaws that continue to riddle our system of justice today. A tale of false confessions and jailhouse snitches, of evidence overlooked, and justice more blinkered than blind, the Boorns’ story reminds us of the perennial nature of the errors at the heart of American jurisprudence and of the need to question and correct a system that regularly condemns the innocent.

Miss or Mrs.? (By:Wilkie Collins)

William Wilkie Collins 1824 1889 was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non fiction work. His best known works are The Woman in White 1860, The Moonstone 1868, Armadale 1866 and No Name 1862. His works were classified at the time as ‘sensation novels’, a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His novel, No Name combined social commentary the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents with a densely plotted revenge thriller. Amongst his other works are: Basil 1852, Hide and Seek 1854, After the Dark 1856, The Frozen Deep 1857, The Queen of Hearts 1859, Man and Wife 1870, The New Magdalen 1873, The Law and the Lady 1875, The Two Destinies 1876, and A Rogue’s Life 1879.

The Haunted Hotel (By:Wilkie Collins)

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My Lady’s Money (By:Wilkie Collins)

OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Time had discolored the paper, and had turned the ink to a brownish hue. The letters were all addressed to the same person ‘THE RT. HON. LORD LYDIARD’ and were all signed in the same way ‘Your affectionate cousin, James Tollmidge.’ Judged by these specimens of his correspon dence, Mr. Tollmidge must have possessed one great merit as a letter writer the merit of brevity. He will weary nobody’s patience, if he is allowed to have a hearing. Let him, therefore, be permitted, in his own high flown way, to speak for himself. First Letter. ‘My statement, as your Lordship requests, shall be short and to the point. I was doing very well as a portrait painter in the country; and I had a wife and children to consider. Under the circumstances, if I had been left to decide for myself, I should certainly have waited until I had saved a little money before I ventured on the serious expense of taking a house and studio at the west end of London. Your Lordship, I positively declare, encouraged me to try the experiment without waiting.

Who Killed Zebedee? (By:Wilkie Collins)

Undisputed master of sensation fiction and forefather of the modern crime story, Wilkie Collins was also a supreme chronicler of the dark underside of Victorian London. Chilling in the extreme, these three short stories of murder and suspense are outstanding examples of his craft. Setting himself in front of the station fire, a young policeman is little prepared for the account of bloody murder that will be relayed that night. It seems that Mrs. Crosscapel’s lodging house is a place of dark secrets and buried passions emotions that will soon cloud even his own judgment. As with the other short stories included here, Who Killed Zebedee? is a brilliant and highly original tale of horror and the macabre. Foreword by Martin Jarvis.

Great Law and Order Stories

The creator of the irrepressible barrister sleuth, Rumpole of the Old Bailey, presents a superb collection of classic tales of mystery and suspense. With stories by such authors as P.D. James and Charles Dickens, Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, Edgar Allan Poe and John Mortimer himself, this anthology explores new dimensions in crime writing.

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