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ILLUSTRATIONS
Artist.

Marley’s Ghost
J. Leech

Ghosts of Departed Usurers
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Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball
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Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits ,,

Scrooge’s Third Visitor
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Ignorance and Want
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The Last of the Spirits
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Scrooge and Bob Cratchit
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES A Story Of The French Revolution By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

!!!! Book the First—Recalled to Life

I. The Period

II. The Mail

III. The Night Shadows

IV. The Preparation

V. The Wine-shop

VI. The Shoemaker

!!!! Book the Second—the Golden Thread

I. Five Years Later

II. A Sight

III. A Disappointment

IV. Congratulatory

V. The Jackal

VI. Hundreds of People

VII. Monseigneur in Town

VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

IX. The Gorgon's Head

X. Two Promises

XI. A Companion Picture

XII. The Fellow of Delicacy

XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy

XIV. The Honest Tradesman

XV. Knitting

XVI. Still Knitting

XVII. One Night

XVIII. Nine Days

XIX. An Opinion

XX. A Plea

XXI. Echoing Footsteps

XXII. The Sea Still Rises

XXIII. Fire Rises

XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

!!!! Book the Third—the Track of a Storm

I. In Secret

II. The Grindstone

III. The Shadow

IV. Calm in Storm

V. The Wood-Sawyer

VI. Triumph

VII. A Knock at the Door

VIII. A Hand at Cards

IX. The Game Made

X. The Substance of the Shadow

XI. Dusk

XII. Darkness

XIII. Fifty-two

XIV. The Knitting Done

XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK By Charles Dickens LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Master Humphrey’s Chamber

George Cattermole

215

Friendly Recognitions

Phiz

217

Gog and Magog

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228

A Gallant Cavalier

George Cattermole

232

Death of Master Graham

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237

A Charming Fellow

Phiz

240

The Two Friends

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246

Hunted Down

George Cattermole

254

Mr. Pickwick introduces himself to Master Humphrey

Phiz

259

Will Marks reading the News concerning Witches

George Cattermole

266

Will Marks takes up his position for the night

Phiz

270

Will Marks arrives at the Church

George Cattermole

277

Tony Weller and his Grandson

Phiz

282

Proceedings of the Club

288

The Last Will and Testament of William Blinder

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292

A Rival Club

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297

A Chip of the Old Block

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302

Master Humphrey’s Visionary Friends

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311

The Deserted Chamber

George Cattermole

318

AND PICTURES FROM ITALY By Charles Dickens With 8 Illustrations By Marcus Stone

CONTENTS

The Reader’s Passport

215

Going through France

218

Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon

225

Avignon to Genoa

233

Genoa and its Neighbourhood

238

To Parma, Modena, and Bologna

264

Through Bologna and Ferrara

272

An Italian Dream

277

By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across the Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland

284

To Rome by Pisa and Siena

297

Rome

308

A Rapid Diorama

345 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Civil and Military

Marcus Stone, R.A.

218

Italian Peasants

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250

The Chiffonier

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294

In the Catacombs

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326

AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION By Charles Dickens CONTENTS

Dedication of “American Notes”

v

Preface to the First Cheap Edition of “American Notes”

vii

Preface to the “Charles Dickens” Edition of “American Notes”

ix

AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION

CHAPTER I

Going Away

3

CHAPTER II

The Passage out

10

CHAPTER III

Boston

22

CHAPTER IV

An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System

52

CHAPTER V

Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York

60

CHAPTER VI

New York

67

CHAPTER VII

Philadelphia, and its Solitary Prison

81

CHAPTER VIII

Washington. The Legislature. And the President’s House

94

CHAPTER IX

A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat

107

CHAPTER X

Some further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg

121

CHAPTER XI

From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati

130

CHAPTER XII

From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis

137

CHAPTER XIII

A Jaunt to the Looking-glass Prairie and back

147

CHAPTER XIV

Return to Cincinnati. A Stage-coach Ride from that City to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. So, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara

153

CHAPTER XV

In Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John’s. In the United States again; Lebanon; The Shaker Village; West Point

167

CHAPTER XVI

The Passage Home

182

CHAPTER XVII

Slavery

189

CHAPTER XVIII

Concluding Remarks

202

Postscript

210 p. xvLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Emigrants

Marcus Stone, R.A.

Frontispiece

The Solitary Prisoner

90

Black and White

112

The Little Wife

144

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 29

CHAPTER 30

CHAPTER 31

CHAPTER 32

CHAPTER 33

CHAPTER 34

CHAPTER 35

CHAPTER 36

CHAPTER 37

CHAPTER 38

CHAPTER 39

CHAPTER 40

CHAPTER 41

CHAPTER 42

CHAPTER 43

CHAPTER 44

CHAPTER 45

CHAPTER 46

CHAPTER 47

CHAPTER 48

CHAPTER 49

CHAPTER 50

CHAPTER 51

CHAPTER 52

CHAPTER 53

CHAPTER 54

CHAPTER 55

CHAPTER 56

CHAPTER 57

CHAPTER 58

CHAPTER 59

CHAPTER 60

CHAPTER 61

CHAPTER 62

CHAPTER 63

CHAPTER 64

CHAPTER 65

CHAPTER 66

CHAPTER 67

CHAPTER 68

CHAPTER 69

CHAPTER 70

CHAPTER 71

CHAPTER 72

CHAPTER 73

DAVID COPPERFIELD By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION

PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION

THE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER

CHAPTER 1. — I AM BORN

CHAPTER 2. — I OBSERVE

CHAPTER 3. — I HAVE A CHANGE

CHAPTER 4. — I FALL INTO DISGRACE

CHAPTER 5. — I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME

CHAPTER 6. — I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE

CHAPTER 7. — MY ‘FIRST HALF’ AT SALEM HOUSE

CHAPTER 8. — MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON

CHAPTER 9. — I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY

CHAPTER 10. — I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR

CHAPTER 11. — I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON’T LIKE IT

CHAPTER 12. — LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FORM A GREAT RESOLUTION

CHAPTER 13. — THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION

CHAPTER 14. — MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME

CHAPTER 15. — I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING

CHAPTER 16. — I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE

CHAPTER 17. — SOMEBODY TURNS UP

CHAPTER 18. — A RETROSPECT

CHAPTER 19. — I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER 20. — STEERFORTH’S HOME

CHAPTER 21. — LITTLE EM’LY

CHAPTER 22. — SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE

CHAPTER 23. — I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION

CHAPTER 24. — MY FIRST DISSIPATION

CHAPTER 25. — GOOD AND BAD ANGELS

CHAPTER 26. — I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY

CHAPTER 27. — TOMMY TRADDLES

CHAPTER 28. — Mr. MICAWBER’S GAUNTLET

CHAPTER 29. — I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN

CHAPTER 30. — A LOSS

CHAPTER 31. — A GREATER LOSS

CHAPTER 32. — THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY

CHAPTER 33. — BLISSFUL

CHAPTER 34. — MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME

CHAPTER 35. — DEPRESSION

CHAPTER 36. — ENTHUSIASM

CHAPTER 37. — A LITTLE COLD WATER

CHAPTER 38. — A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP

CHAPTER 39. — WICKFIELD AND HEEP

CHAPTER 40. — THE WANDERER

CHAPTER 41. — DORA’S AUNTS

CHAPTER 42. — MISCHIEF

CHAPTER 43. — ANOTHER RETROSPECT

CHAPTER 44. — OUR HOUSEKEEPING

CHAPTER 45. — MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT’S PREDICTIONS

CHAPTER 46. — INTELLIGENCE

CHAPTER 47. — MARTHA

CHAPTER 48. — DOMESTIC

CHAPTER 49. — I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY

CHAPTER 50. — Mr. PEGGOTTY’S DREAM COMES TRUE

CHAPTER 51. — THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY

CHAPTER 52. — I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION

CHAPTER 53. — ANOTHER RETROSPECT

CHAPTER 54. — Mr. MICAWBER’S TRANSACTIONS

CHAPTER 55. — TEMPEST

CHAPTER 56. — THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD

CHAPTER 57. — THE EMIGRANTS

CHAPTER 58. — ABSENCE

CHAPTER 59. — RETURN

CHAPTER 60. — AGNES

CHAPTER 61. — I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS

CHAPTER 62. — A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY

CHAPTER 63. — A VISITOR

CHAPTER 64. — A LAST RETROSPECT

HARD TIMES By Charles Dickens CONTENTS

BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING

PAGE

CHAPTER I

The One Thing Needful

3

CHAPTER II

Murdering the Innocents

4

CHAPTER III

A Loophole

8

CHAPTER IV

Mr. Bounderby

12

CHAPTER V

The Keynote

18

CHAPTER VI

Sleary’s Horsemanship

23

CHAPTER VII

Mrs. Sparsit

33

CHAPTER VIII

Never Wonder

38

CHAPTER IX

Sissy’s Progress

43

CHAPTER X

Stephen Blackpool

49

CHAPTER XI

No Way Out

53

CHAPTER XII

The Old Woman

59

CHAPTER XIII

Rachael

63

CHAPTER XIV

The Great Manufacturer

69

CHAPTER XV

Father and Daughter

73

CHAPTER XVI

Husband and Wife

79

BOOK THE SECOND. REAPING

CHAPTER I

Effects in the Bank

84

CHAPTER II

Mr. James Harthouse

94

CHAPTER III

The Whelp

101

CHAPTER IV

Men and Brothers

111

CHAPTER V

Men and Masters

105

CHAPTER VI

Fading Away

116

CHAPTER VII

Gunpowder

126

CHAPTER VIII

Explosion

136

CHAPTER IX

Hearing the Last of it

146

CHAPTER X

Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase

152

CHAPTER XI

Lower and Lower

156

CHAPTER XII

Down

163

BOOK THE THIRD. GARNERING

CHAPTER I

Another Thing Needful

167

CHAPTER II

Very Ridiculous

172

CHAPTER III

Very Decided

179

CHAPTER IV

Lost

186

CHAPTER V

Found

193

CHAPTER VI

The Starlight

200

CHAPTER VII

Whelp-Hunting

208

CHAPTER VIII

Philosophical

216

CHAPTER IX

Final

222 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

Stephen and Rachael in the Sick-room

64

Mr. Harthouse Dining at the Bounderbys’

100

Mr. Harthouse and Tom Gradgrind in the Garden

132

Stephen Blackpool recovered from the Old Hell Shaft

206

DOMBEY AND SON By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1. Dombey and Son

CHAPTER 2. In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families.

CHAPTER 3. In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department

CHAPTER 4. In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures

CHAPTER 5. Paul’s Progress and Christening

CHAPTER 6. Paul’s Second Deprivation

CHAPTER 7. A Bird’s-eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-place: also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections

CHAPTER 8. Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character

CHAPTER 9. In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble

CHAPTER 10. Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster

CHAPTER 11. Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene

CHAPTER 12. Paul’s Education

CHAPTER 13. Shipping Intelligence and Office Business

CHAPTER 14. Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays

CHAPTER 15. Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay

CHAPTER 16. What the Waves were always saying

CHAPTER 17. Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People

CHAPTER 18. Father and Daughter

CHAPTER 19. Walter goes away

CHAPTER 20. Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey

CHAPTER 21. New Faces

CHAPTER 22. A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager

CHAPTER 23. Florence solitary, and the Midshipman mysterious

CHAPTER 24. The Study of a Loving Heart

CHAPTER 25. Strange News of Uncle Sol

CHAPTER 26. Shadows of the Past and Future

CHAPTER 27. Deeper Shadows

CHAPTER 28. Alterations

CHAPTER 29. The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick

CHAPTER 30. The interval before the Marriage

CHAPTER 31. The Wedding

CHAPTER 32. The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces

CHAPTER 33. Contrasts

CHAPTER 34. Another Mother and Daughter

CHAPTER 35. The Happy Pair

CHAPTER 36. Housewarming

CHAPTER 37. More Warnings than One

CHAPTER 38. Miss Tox improves an Old Acquaintance

CHAPTER 39. Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner

CHAPTER 40. Domestic Relations

CHAPTER 41. New Voices in the Waves

CHAPTER 42. Confidential and Accidental

CHAPTER 43. The Watches of the Night

CHAPTER 44. A Separation

CHAPTER 45. The Trusty Agent

CHAPTER 46. Recognizant and Reflective

CHAPTER 47. The Thunderbolt

CHAPTER 48. The Flight of Florence

CHAPTER 49. The Midshipman makes a Discovery

CHAPTER 50. Mr Toots’s Complaint

CHAPTER 51. Mr Dombey and the World

CHAPTER 52. Secret Intelligence

CHAPTER 53. More Intelligence

CHAPTER 54. The Fugitives

CHAPTER 55. Rob the Grinder loses his Place

CHAPTER 56. Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted

CHAPTER 57. Another Wedding

CHAPTER 58. After a Lapse

CHAPTER 59. Retribution

CHAPTER 60. Chiefly Matrimonial

CHAPTER 61. Relenting

CHAPTER 62. Final

PREFACE OF 1848

PREFACE OF 1867

REPRINTED PIECES By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

PAGE

The Long Voyage

309

The Begging-letter Writer

317

A Child’s Dream of a Star

324

Our English Watering-place

327

Our French Watering-place

335

Bill-sticking

346

“Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son”

357

Lying Awake

361

The Ghost of Art

367

Out of Town

373

Out of the Season

379

A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent

386

The Noble Savage

391

A Flight

397

The Detective Police

406

Three “Detective” Anecdotes

422

I.—The Pair of Gloves

II.—The Artful Touch

III.—The Sofa

On Duty with Inspector Field

430

Down with the Tide

442

A Walk in a Workhouse

451

Prince Bull. A Fairy Tale

457

A Plated Article

462

Our Honourable Friend

470

Our School

475

Our Vestry

481

Our Bore

487

A Monument of French Folly

494

The long voyage

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

BOOK THE FIRST — THE CUP AND THE LIP

Chapter 1 --- ON THE LOOK OUT Chapter 2 --- THE MAN FROM SOMEWHERE Chapter 3 --- ANOTHER MAN Chapter 4 --- THE R. WILFER FAMILY Chapter 5 --- BOFFIN'S BOWER Chapter 6 --- CUT ADRIFT Chapter 7 --- MR WEGG LOOKS AFTER HIMSELF Chapter 8 --- MR BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION Chapter 9 --- MR AND MRS BOFFIN IN CONSULTATION Chapter 10 -- A MARRIAGE CONTRACT Chapter 11 -- PODSNAPPERY Chapter 12 -- THE SWEAT OF AN HONEST MAN'S BROW Chapter 13 -- TRACKING THE BIRD OF PREY Chapter 14 -- THE BIRD OF PREY BROUGHT DOWN Chapter 15 -- TWO NEW SERVANTS Chapter 16 -- MINDERS AND RE-MINDERS Chapter 17 -- A DISMAL SWAMP

BOOK THE SECOND — BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Chapter 1 --- OF AN EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER Chapter 2 --- STILL EDUCATIONAL Chapter 3 --- A PIECE OF WORK Chapter 4 --- CUPID PROMPTED Chapter 5 --- MERCURY PROMPTING Chapter 6 --- A RIDDLE WITHOUT AN ANSWER Chapter 7 --- IN WHICH A FRIENDLY MOVE IS ORIGINATED Chapter 8 --- IN WHICH AN INNOCENT ELOPEMENT OCCURS Chapter 9 -9- IN WHICH THE ORPHAN MAKES HIS WILL Chapter 10 -- A SUCCESSOR Chapter 11 -- SOME AFFAIRS OF THE HEART Chapter 12 -- MORE BIRDS OF PREY Chapter 13 -- A SOLO AND A DUETT Chapter 14 -- STRONG OF PURPOSE Chapter 15 -- THE WHOLE CASE SO FAR Chapter 16 -- AN ANNIVERSARY OCCASION

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