Great Books and Classics - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

All links verified on or after March 15, 2017

List of Works
[Bleak House] [A Christmas Carol] [David Copperfield] [Great Expectations] [Hard Times] [Little Dorrit] [Nicholas Nickleby] [Oliver Twist] [Pickwick Papers] [A Tale of Two Cities]

Bleak House (1853) [htr]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
German HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Projekt Gutenberg DE (Translated by Gustav Meyrink)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Everymans Library, 1991).
Paperback edition (Penguin Classics, 2003, 1088 pg).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Bantam Classic and Loveswept, 1995).
Audio CD edition, unabridged, narrated by David Case (Tantor Media, 2006).

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A Christmas Carol (1843) [htr]

HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at the American Literary Classics Library
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
Finnish Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Waldemar Churberg)
French Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
German HTML (5 pages, indexed) at Projekt Gutenberg DE (Translated by Richard Zoozmann)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Candlewick, 2006, 160 pg).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Tor Books, 1990, 128 pg).
Thrift Paperback edition (Dover Pubns, 1993, 68 pg).
Audio CD edition, unabridged, read by Anton Lessor (Naxos Audiobooks, 2006).
Audio CD edition, dramatized, performed by Jonathan Winters and Mimi Kennedy using the script Dickens used at his own readings (HighBridge Company, 2007).

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David Copperfield (1849) [HTR,HC]

HTML (Multi-page, frames, indexed) at The David Copperfield Site
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
Finnish Multi-format in two volumes at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Waldemar Churberg):
Volume 1 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text)
Volume 2 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text)
French Multi-format in two volumes at Project Gutenberg (Translated by P. Lorain):
Volume 1 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text)
Volume 2 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Everyman's Library, 1991, 1024 pg).
Paperback edition (Modern Library, 2000, 896 pg).
Audio CD edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1998).

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Great Expectations (1861) [htr]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
French Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Charles Bernard-Derosne)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Everymans Library, 1992).
Paperback (Large Print) edition (BiblioBazaar, 2007, 538 pg).
Paperback edition (Penguin Classics, 2002, 544 pg).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Tor Books, 1998, 528 pg).
Audio CD edition, unabridged, read by Michael Page (Brilliance Audio, 2005).
Audio Cassette edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1996).
Audio CD edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1996).

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Hard Times (1854) [HTR]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Knopf, 1992).
Paperback (Large Print) edition (BiblioBazaar, 2007, 330 pg).
Paperback edition (Signet Classics, 2008, 336 pg).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Bantam Classic and Loveswept, 1991, 280 pg).
Audio Cassette edition, unabridged(?) (Books on Tape Inc, 1983).
Audio Cassette edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1997).
Audio CD edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1997).

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The Ivy Green [HC]
This poem is from The Pickwick Papers, chapter VI.

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Little Dorrit (1855-57) [htr]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Everyman's Library, 1992, 896 pg).
Paperback edition (Oxford University Press, 1999, 752 pg).

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Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) [htr]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Knopf, 1993, 843 pg).
Paperback edition (Penguin Classics, 1999, 864 pg).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Tor Books, 1998, 992 pg).

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Oliver Twist (1837-39) [htr]

HTML (54 pages, indexed) at The Electronic Text Center (U. Virginia)
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
German HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Projekt Gutenberg DE (Translated by Carl Kolb and Carl Hartz)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Knopf, 1992).
Paperback edition (Penguin Classics, 2003, 608 pg).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Simon & Schuster, 2007, 672 pg).
Audio CD edition, unabridged, read by Martin Jarvis (The Classic Collection, 2015).

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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [HTR,HC]
The only part of this work that appears in the Harvard Classics is the poem The Ivy Green.

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg
French Multi-format in two volumes at Project Gutenberg (Translated by P. Grolier):
Volume 1 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text)
Volume 2 (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text)
German HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Projekt Gutenberg DE (Translated by Gustav Meyrink)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback (Large Print) edition in three volumes (ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006):
Vol. 1 (684 pg) - Vol. 2 (740 pg) - Vol. 3 (680 pg)
Paperback edition (Penguin Books, 2000, 848 pg).
Audio Cassette edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1998).
Audio CD edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1995).

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) [htr]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Knopf, 1993).
Mass Market Paperback edition (Tor Books, 1990).
Thrift Paperback edition (Dover Pubns, 1999, 293 pg).
Audio CD edition, abridged, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Audio Books, 1995).