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Claire Tomlin's biography, Charles Dickens: A Life depicts Dickens as 'a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist – the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock, Miss Havisham and many more.'

Dickens 2012 is an international celebration of the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth, which falls on 7 February 2012. Read more about it here.

	American Notes by Charles Dickens An illuminating account of a great writer's revelatory encounter with the New World. >>read more			Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1870, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. >>read more
	Bleak House by Charles Dickens A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. >>read more			Bleak House: Design by Coralie Bickford Smith Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, this delectable and collectible edition is bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. >>read more
	A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. >>read more			A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings: Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, this delectable and collectible edition is bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. >>read more
	A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. >>read more			A Christmas Carol: Puffin Classics Scrooge is a mean old man with no friends or family to love him - he's just so miserable and bitter! One freezing cold Christmas eve, three ghosts pay Scrooge a visit and an eerie night-time journey begins... >>read more
	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. >>read more			Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel.. >>read more
	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Dickens's extraordinary late work, published in 1861, is a frightening, funny and tender portrayal of self-discovery and redemption. Its misguided hero, Pip, is one of the most moving and memorable characters in fiction. >>read more			Great Expectations: Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, this delectable and collectible edition is bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. >>read more
	Great Expectations: Puffin Classics Master Philip Pirrip goes by the name of Pip. He lives with his cruel sister and her kind husband until one day his simple life changes forever. >>read more			Hard Times by Charles Dickens This edition of Hard Times is based of the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flint's introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens's great critique of Victorian industrial society. >>read more
	Hard Times: Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, this delectable and collectible edition is bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. >>read more			Hard Times: Popular Penguins Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, Hard Times is a daring novel of ideas - and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and the limitless possibilities of the imagination. >>read more
	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. >>read more			Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death, tales of the voyages of Sindbad and more. >>read more
	The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens Dickens died before completing Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalizing mystery unsolved and encouraging generations of readers to try to work out what happened next. >>read more			Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius at its most unerring. >> read more
	The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens The tale of Little Nell gripped the nation when it first appeared in 1841. Described as a 'tragedy of sorrows', the story tells of Nell uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes many shapes. >>read more			Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in Oliver Twist Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. >>read more
	Oliver Twist: Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, this delectable and collectible edition is bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design >>read more			Oliver Twist: Puffin Classics After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. >>read more
	Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens The novel is richly symbolic in its vision of death and renewal in a city dominated by the fetid Thames, and the corrupting power of money. >>read more			The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour. >>read more
	Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens Combining thrilling travelogue with piercing social commentary, Pictures from Italy is a revealing depiction of an exciting and disquieting journey. >>read more			Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens These short works display Dickens's exuberant sense of comedy and character as his imagination is given free rein. >>read more