The Major Works of Charles Dickens in 29 volumes
Author: Charles Dickens
Date Of Publication: Feb 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1772-1
Isbn: 1-4438-1772-4
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.

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.

"Any new edition of Dickens's works is to be welcomed, especially one that includes, along with all the novels and stories, less familiar material such as Master Humphrey's clock, Dickens's poems and songs, his speeches, and Harry Stone's 'Uncollected Writings' from Household Words. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in their 'Classic Texts' series, have produced a 29-volume editionof the 'Major Works' of Dickens, in a handsomely bound paperback form. It has vigorous a vigorous and deft introductory essay by Michael Hollington"

Malcolm Andrews, The Dickensian, Winter 2010

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