Works of Charles Dickens, Read and Not

Submitted by cmonster on Tue, 08/24/2004 - 05:30
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  • Pickwick Papers (1836)
  • Oliver Twist (1837)
  • Nicholas Nickelby (1838)
  • Master Humphrey's Clock (1840)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1840):
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    "...and as he made it a preliminary condition that Mrs Jiniwin should be thenceforth an out-pensioner, they lived together after marriage with no more than the average amount of quarreling, and led a merry life on the dead dwarf's money."
  • Barnaby Rudge (1841)
  • American Notes (1842)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (1843)
  • A Christmas Carol (1843)
  • The Chimes: A Goblin Story (1844)
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
  • The Battle of Life (1846)
  • Pictures from Italy (1846)
  • Dombey and Son (1846):
    "There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two."
  • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
  • David Copperfield (1849)
  • A Child's History of England (1852)
  • Bleak House (1852):
    "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." Best. Dinosaur image. Ever.
  • Hard Times: For These Times (1854):
    "Mrs Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment at the Bank, on the shadier side of the frying street. Office-hours were over, and at that period of the day, in warm weather, she usually embellished with her genteel presence a managerial board-room over the public office. Her own private sitting-room was a story higher, at the window of which post of observation she was ready, every morning, to greet Mr Bounderby as he came across the road, with the sympathizing recognition appropriate to a Victim. He had been married now a year, and Mrs Sparsit had never released him from her determined pity a moment."
  • Little Dorrit (1855)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
  • Great Expectations (1860):
    "It was a rimy morning and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using my window as a handker-chief."
  • The Uncommercial Traveler (1861)
  • Our Mutual Friend (1864):
    "Miss Peecher repressed a sigh as she gathered her work together for bed, and transfixed that part of her dress where her heart would have been if she had had the dress on, with a sharp, sharp needle."
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870):
    "It has been often enough remarked that women have a curious power of divining the characters of men, which would seem to be innate and instinctive, seeing that it is arrived at through no patient process of reasoning, that it can give no satisfactory or sufficient account of itself, and that it pronounces in the most confident manner even against accumulated observation on the part of the other sex."
  • "The Battle of Life"
  • "A Christmas Tree"
  • "A Dinner at Poplar Walk"
  • "Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions"
  • "A Flight"
  • "Frozen Deep"
  • "George Silverman's Explanation"
  • "Going into Society"
  • "Holiday Romance"
  • "The Holly Tree"
  • "Hunted Down"
  • "The Long Voyage"
  • "A Message from the Sea"
  • "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy"
  • "Public Life of Mr Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog"
  • "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton"
  • "Sunday Under Three Heads"
  • "Tom Tiddler's Ground"
  • "Travelling Abroad - City of London Churches"
  • "Wreck of the Golden Mary"
Author Comments: 

Three notes:

1. None of this would have happened if my mother hadn't mentioned one day that In Her Day, all children read all of Dickens in school. And you know, anything my parents can do...

2. Also, I have so far been called Mrs Defarge three times in my life. And that's one of the ones I haven't read.

3. They're actually pretty good.

adagioinb03/18/2009

I've always had a problem PHYSICALLY READING Dickens. But I discovered I can LISTEN to him being read, and enjoy it thoroughly. There are a lot of good recordings at Librivox.org.