Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is 200 years old tomorrow. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812. His immense contribution to English literature means that he is never away of the limelight. His novels and short stories have been made into countless movies, musicals and dramas.List of Work by Charles Dickens

List of Work by Charles 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

Just some of the Dickens’s short stories and other works

American Notes
The Battle of Life
The Chimes: A Goblin Story
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Tree
A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions
A Flight
Frozen Deep
George Silverman’s Explanation
Going into Society
The Haunted Man
Holiday Romance
The Holly-Tree
Hunted Down
The Long Voyage
Master Humphrey’s Clock
A Message from the Sea
Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy
Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog
Sketches by Boz
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

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~Charles Dickens
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
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As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
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Bring in the bottled ligthning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.
– Charles Dickens