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The letters of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. They have been described as "i..

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Cur..

Perils of Certain English Prisoners

Charles Dickens

In 1857, Charles Dickens paired up with his close friend and fellow Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins to produce this interesting novella. Said to have been inspired by the Sepoy Mutiny of that year, ..

The Lamplighter

Charles Dickens

The Lamplighter is a wild farce. It feels a little as if someone deleted all the plot, characterization, and heavy themes from one of Dickens' shorter novels and just left us with a dozen pages of the..

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

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 ..

Danger! and Other Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

Danger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story describes Britain's need to update its naval preparations. Norland, a fictional small c..

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britai..

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Charles Dickens

The Wreck of the Golden Mary is a novel by Charles Dickens. English novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature (1812-1870)...