The Major Works of Charles Dickens in 29 volumes

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1772-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 13464 Seiten

There are few authors whose names can be as immediately identified by a large international public as that of Charles Dickens. Indisputably, to both his own time and all since, he is the greatest literary figure of Victorian England. To many readers, he is equally the English novelist par excellence. Indeed, part of the general significance of Dickens is that he, more than anyone else in the English-speaking world, ensured the triumph of the novel as the most highly regarded and widely read of literary genres, a position it has retained ever since.

This edition of Dickens' major works includes, as a matter of course, all the novels and the most significant shorter fiction (Christmas books and stories, Sketches by Boz, etc.). It also includes two volumes of travel writing, considerable selections from Dickens' periodical writing, and his entire output of verse. CSP are particularly pleased to include in this edition, by permission of the editor's estate, the entirety of Prof. Ken Fielding's edition of Dickens's speeches, acknowledged as the standard edition but which has now been out of print for over twenty years. The contents of the volumes are as follows:

Volume 1 (606 pp.): Introduction to the Works by Prof. Michael Hollington; Sketches by Boz and other sketches
Volume 2 (707 pp.): The Pickwick Papers
Volume 3 (774 pp.): Nicholas Nickleby
Volume 4 (101 pp.): Master Humphrey's Clock
Volume 5 (507 pp.): The Old Curiosity Shop
Volume 6 (600 pp.): Barnaby Rudge
Volume 7 (737 pp.): Martin Chuzzlewit
Volume 8 (398 pp.): Oliver Twist
Volume 9 (754 pp.): Dombey and Son
Volume 10 (736 pp.): David Copperfield
Volume 11 (758 pp.): Bleak House
Volume 12 (255 pp.): Hard Times
Volume 13 (746 pp.): Little Dorrit
Volume 14 (344 pp.): A Tale of Two Cities
Volume 15 (376 pp.): Great Expectations
Volume 16 (749 pp.): Our Mutual Friend
Volume 17 (237 pp.): The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Volume 18 (362 pp.): complete Christmas books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Volume 19 (631 pp.): complete Christmas stories (including collaborative material)
Volume 20 (197 pp.): Reprinted Pieces
Volume 21 (232 pp.): Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Bardell v. Pickwick, George Silverman's Explanation, Holiday Romance
Volume 22 (216 pp.): American Notes
Volume 23 (148 pp.): Pictures from Italy
Volume 24 (341 pp.): A Child's History of England
Volume 25 (301 pp.): The Uncommercial Traveller
Volume 26 (660 pp.): Miscellaneous Papers
Volume 27 (416 pp.): Uncollected Writings from Household Words
Volume 28 (503 pp.): Speeches (ed. Ken Fielding)
Volume 29 (72 pp.): Poems and Verses
All the texts have been newly typeset for this edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dickens, Charles

Über Autor(innen)

Dickens, Charles
Michael Hollington was for many years Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and was subsequently Professor of English at Toulouse University. He is a specialist in the works of Dickens, but has also researched and published on Anglophone Modernism.

Michael Hollington was for many years Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and was subsequently Professor of English at Toulouse University. He is a specialist in the works of Dickens, but has also researched and published on Anglophone Modernism.