Charles Dickens is the author of some of the English language's best loved books. His novels continue to captivate generations of readers with their colourful characters and engrossing stories of Victorian London. The Folio Society has published a collection of beautiful hardback Dickens books, with classic illustrations, like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. See below for the full list of illustrated Folio Dickens editions.
Dickens's story of the French aristocrat Charles Darnay and dissolute barrister Sydney Carton, drawn together by the love of the same woman, reaches its memorable climax in the bloody cauldron of Paris during the Terror.
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Populated by some of Dickens’s most memorable characters, Bleak House (1852-3) is a devastating satire on the evils of the English legal system and the state of Victorian society.
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At the heart of this collection is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved works: A Christmas Carol. This and his other seasonal novellas have become part of Christmas itself, reminding us of simple family pleasures and the value of goodwill.
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Dickens’s famously autobiographical novel tells of a rootless orphan who overcomes poverty to become a famous novelist.
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The novels of Charles Dickens were translated into many foreign languages during his lifetime, and in 1837 he began to travel abroad regularly to give very successful readings from his own works. Dickens in Europe is his account of these peregrinations through France, Switzerland and Italy.
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This selection of celebrated essays by Charles Dickens conjures up a peerless, eyewitness account of the 19th-century capital, from the rarefied world of Whitehall to working-class conviviality and blighted slums.
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In one of Dickens's best-loved and most enduring novels, written in 1860-1 at the height of his powers, the hero finds that 'great expectations' are not enough when it comes to the real business of living.
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When the starving boys of the workhouse draw lots to decide who shall ask for extra gruel, it is Oliver who pulls the short straw. Banished by Mr Bumble, apprenticed to an undertaker, and adopted into Fagin's den of thieves, Oliver somehow survives, his essential innocence and goodness intact.
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The Pickwick Papers (1836-7) launched Dickens's career in riotous style. A rollicking romp through the coaching England of Dickens’s youth, in which the adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends never fail to delight.
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With their labyrinthine plots, evocative settings and unforgettable characters, the novels of Charles Dickens have delighted generations of readers. To celebrate the 2012 bicentenary of his birth, The Folio Society presents five new editions of his works, based on the celebrated 1930s Nonesuch editions, with original illustrations by artists including Dickens’s long-term collaborator ‘Phiz’.
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