This book-collection file includes all 16 novels, 12 Christmas stories, 9 collections of stories and sketches, 13 individual stories, 7 non-fiction books, and 10 books about Dickens. The novels include: Pickwick, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little dorrit, a Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, No thoroughfare, and Mystery of Edwin Drood. The Christmas stories are: Battle of Life, Chimes, A Christmas Carol, Haunted man and the Bhost's Bargain, The Holly-Tree, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story. The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. The collections of stories and sketches are: Sksetches by Boz, The Uncommerical Traveller, Master Humphrey's Clock, A House to let, Contributioins to All the Year Round, Three Ghost Stories, Mudgof and other Sketches, Sketches of Young Couples, and Sketches of Young Gentlemen. The individual stories and sketches are: Doctor Marigold, George Silverman's Explanation, Going into Society, Holiday Romance, Hunted Down, The Lamplighter, A Message from the Sea, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction, The Seven Poor Travellers, and Somebody's Luggage. The non-fiction books are: American Notes for General Circulation, A Child's History of England, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Miscellaneous Papers, Pictures from italy, Reprinted Pieces, and Speeches: Literary and Social. The books about Dickens are: Charles Dickens and Music by Lightwood, Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, appreicatiosn andCriticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G.K. Chesterton, The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by Nats, The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick by Lockwood, Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Fitzgerald, The Puzzle of dickens's Last Plot by Lang, Ten Boys from Dickens by Sweetser, and Ten Girls from Dickens by Sweetser. According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (IPA: /'t??:lz 'd?k?nz/; 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens's novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form-a popular format for fiction at the time-and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the (original) public looking forward to the next installment."
