Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, né en 1812, était un auteur anglais considéré comme le plus grand romancier de l'ère victorienne. Il est né près de Portsmouth, où son père occupait un poste de clerc dans le bureau de la solde de la marine. Plus tard, la famille déménage à Londres, mais ils ont fait face à des difficultés financières, ce qui a conduit Dickens à travailler dans un entrepôt de cirage noir lorsque son père a été emprisonné pour dettes. Ces expériences ont eu un impact profond sur le jeune Dickens et ont été reflétées dans ses œuvres ultérieures.

Dickens a commencé sa carrière d'écrivain en contribuant des histoires à des journaux et des magazines en 1833. Son premier grand succès est venu avec la publication en série des Papiers Pickwick en 1836. Au cours des deux décennies suivantes, il a publié certains de ses romans les plus renommés, notamment Oliver Twist, Un chant de Noël, David Copperfield, Un conte de deux villes et Grande Expectations. En plus de ses romans, Dickens a également édité deux revues, Household Words et Tout au long de l'année.

Les œuvres de Dickens ont été louées pour leur humour, leur satire et leurs observations perspicaces de la société. Ses personnages étaient riches et bien développés, et ses histoires regorgeaient de commentaires sociaux, reflétant sa préoccupation pour les pauvres et les opprimés. Les romans de Dickens, tels qu'Oliver Twist et Grande Expectations, restent populaires et ont été adaptés en de nombreux films, pièces de théâtre et productions télévisuelles. Son conte de Noël de 1843, Un chant de Noël, est un classique des fêtes qui a inspiré d'innombrables adaptations et reste une histoire aimée à ce jour.

Charles Dickens est décédé en juin 1870, laissant derrière lui un héritage en tant qu'un des plus grands romanciers de la langue anglaise. Ses œuvres continuent d'être lues et appréciées par des millions de personnes dans le monde, et son influence sur la littérature se fait encore sentir aujourd'hui. Le terme "dickensien" est utilisé pour décrire quelque chose qui est évocateur de Dickens et de ses écrits, comme des conditions sociales défavorables ou des personnages comiquement répugnants. Le génie créatif de Dickens, son réalisme, son humour, son style de prose, ses caractérisations uniques et sa critique sociale ont été salués par ses pairs et les critiques.
Romans indépendants
# Titre Année
1 The Pickwick Papers 1837
2 The Adventures of Oliver Twist 1838
3 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby 1839
4 Barnaby Rudge 1841
5 Master Humphrey's Clock 1841
6 Old Curiosity Shop 1841
7 A Christmas Carol 1843
8 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 1844
9 The Chimes 1844
10 The Cricket on the Hearth 1845
11 The Battle of Life 1846
12 Dombey and Son 1848
13 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 1848
14 David Copperfield 1850
15 Bleak House 1853
16 Hard Times 1854
17 Little Dorrit 1855
18 A Child's History of England 1854
19 The Hanged Man's Bride 1857
20 A Tale of Two Cities 1859
21 Great Expectations 1861
22 Mrs Lirriper 1863
23 Our Mutual Friend 1865
24 No Thoroughfare 1867
25 No Thoroughfare (With: Wilkie Collins) 1867
26 The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870
Short Stories/Novellas (with Wilkie Collins, with Elizabeth Gaskell, with Adelaide Anne Procter)
# Titre Année
1 Sunday under Three Heads 1836
2 The Black Veil 1836
3 The Lamplighter 1838
4 A House to Let 1858
5 A Child's Dream of a Star 1850
6 The Holly Tree Inn 1850
7 The Seven Poor Travellers 1854
8 A House to Let (With: Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter) 1858
9 The Haunted House 1859
10 A Message from the Sea 1860
11 Somebody's Luggage 1862
12 Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 1864
13 Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 1864
14 Doctor Marigold 1866
15 Mugby Junction 1866
16 The Magic Fishbone 1867
17 Holiday Romance 1868
18 George Silverman's Explanation 1868
Recueils de nouvelles
# Titre Année
1 Sketches by Boz 1836
2 The Mudfog Papers 1837
3 Sketches of Young Gentlemen 1838
4 Master Humphrey's Clock, Volume 2 1841
5 Sketches of Young Couples 1843
6 To Be Read at Dusk 1852
7 The Poor Traveller / Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn 1858
8 Reprinted Pieces 1861
9 The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens 1866
10 Holiday Romance and Other Writings for Children 1868
11 Mudfog and Other Papers Contributed to Bentley's Miscellany 1880
12 Select Short Fiction 1976
13 The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories 1984
14 Three Ghost Stories 1998
15 Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens (With: Shelley Klein) 2002
16 Hunted Down 2016
17 Christmas Stories / Christmas Books 2018
18 Night Walks and Other Essays 2020
Collections
# Titre Année
1 Christmas Stories 2018
2 Three Ghost Stories 1998
3 Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens 2002
Nick Hern Books
# Titre Année
1 Great Expectations 1861
2 Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off (By: Liz Lochhead) 1987
3 Honour (By: Joanna Murray-Smith) 1995
4 Hotel (By: Caryl Churchill) 1997
5 Scotland Plays (By: Liz Lochhead, Iain Crichton Smith, Catherine Czerkawska, Philip Howard, Ann Marie Di Mambro, Stephen Greenhorn, David Greig, Linda McLean) 1998
6 Anna Weiss (By: Mike Cullen) 1998
7 My Boy Jack ( By: David Haig) 1998
8 Howie the Rookie (By: Mark O'Rowe) 1999
9 Passing Places (By: Stephen Greenhorn) 1999
10 Be My Baby (By: Amanda Whittington) 2000
11 Love Upon the Throne (By: Patrick Barlow) 2000
12 Push Up (By: Roland Schimmelpfennig, Maja Zade) 2002
13 His Dark Materials (By: Philip Pullman, Nicholas Wright) 2005
14 When You Cure Me (By: Jack Thorne) 2005
15 The Winterling (By: Jez Butterworth) 2006
16 5/11 (By: Edward Kemp) 2006
17 Cruising (By: Alecky Blythe) 2007
18 How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (By: Fin Kennedy) 2007
19 Iron (By: Rona Munro) 2008
20 Never So Good (By: Howard Brenton) 2008
21 Happy Now? (By: Lucinda Coxon) 2008
22 Cherry Blossom (By: Catherine Grosvenor) 2009
23 Tuesdays at Tesco's (By: Emmanuel Darley, Matthew Hurt, Sarah Vermande) 2009
24 When the Rain Stops Falling (By: Andrew Bovell) 2009
25 So You Want To Go To Drama School? (By: Helen Freeman) 2011
26 The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays (By: Fin Kennedy) 2011
27 Sex with a Stranger (By: Stefan Golaszewski) 2012
28 The Haunting 2012
29 The Acting Book (By: John Abbott) 2012
30 Goodbye to All That (By: Luke Norris) 2012
31 Herding Cats (By: Lucinda Coxon) 2012
32 Chimerica (By: Lucy Kirkwood) 2013
33 Godchild (By: Deborah Bruce) 2013
34 Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (By: Enda Walsh) 2014
35 Cressida (By: Nicholas Wright) 2014
36 Blood and Ice (By: Liz Lochhead) 2014
37 Coram Boy ( By: Jamila Gavin) 2014
38 Elephants (By: Rose Heiney) 2016
39 Kiss Me Quickstep (By: Amanda Whittington) 2016
40 Russian Dolls (By: Kate Lock) 2016
41 This is Living (By: Liam Borrett) 2016
42 Mr Incredible (By: Camilla Whitehill) 2016
43 Us/Them (By: Carly Wijs) 2017
44 Run (By: Stephen Laughton) 2017
45 Consent (By: Nina Raine) 2017
46 Again (By: Stephanie Jacob) 2018
47 The Clink (By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018
48 Night Time (By: Selma Dimitrijevic) 2019
49 Family: Three Plays (By: Iain Crichton Smith, Linda McLean, Riccardo Galgani) 2020
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 American Notes For General Circulation 1842
2 Pictures from Italy 1846
3 A Child's History of England 1854
4 The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (With: Wilkie Collins) 1857
5 The Uncommercial Traveller 1869
NHB Modern Plays
# Titre Année
1 Great Expectations 1861
2 Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off (By: Liz Lochhead) 1987
3 Mrs Klein (By: Nicholas Wright) 1988
4 Honour (By: Joanna Murray-Smith) 1995
5 Hotel (By: Caryl Churchill) 1997
6 Scotland Plays (By: Philip Howard) 1998
7 Anna Weiss (By: Mike Cullen) 1998
8 Blue Heart (By: Caryl Churchill) 1998
9 My Boy Jack ( By: David Haig) 1998
10 Jane Eyre (By: Charlotte Brontë, Polly Teale) 1999
11 Howie the Rookie (By: Mark O'Rowe) 1999
12 Passing Places (By: Stephen Greenhorn) 1999
13 Be My Baby (By: Amanda Whittington) 2000
14 Kes (By: Barry Hines, Lawrence Till) 2000
15 Love Upon the Throne (By: Patrick Barlow) 2000
16 Far Away (By: Caryl Churchill) 2000
17 Push Up (By: Roland Schimmelpfennig, Maja Zade) 2002
18 His Dark Materials (By: Philip Pullman, Nicholas Wright) 2005
19 When You Cure Me (By: Jack Thorne) 2005
20 The Winterling (By: Jez Butterworth) 2006
21 5/11 (By: Edward Kemp) 2006
22 Cruising (By: Alecky Blythe) 2007
23 How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (By: Fin Kennedy) 2007
24 Iron (By: Rona Munro) 2008
25 Never So Good (By: Howard Brenton) 2008
26 Happy Now? (By: Lucinda Coxon) 2008
27 Cherry Blossom (By: Catherine Grosvenor) 2009
28 Tuesdays at Tesco's (By: Emmanuel Darley, Matthew Hurt, Sarah Vermande) 2009
29 When the Rain Stops Falling (By: Andrew Bovell) 2009
30 BUNNY (By: Jack Thorne) 2010
31 So You Want To Go To Drama School? (By: Helen Freeman) 2011
32 The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays (By: Fin Kennedy) 2011
33 Sex with a Stranger (By: Stefan Golaszewski) 2012
34 Love & Information (By: Caryl Churchill) 2012
35 The Haunting 2012
36 The Acting Book (By: John Abbott) 2012
37 Goodbye to All That (By: Luke Norris) 2012
38 Herding Cats (By: Lucinda Coxon) 2012
39 The River (By: Jez Butterworth) 2012
40 The Last of the Haussmans (By: Stephen Beresford) 2012
41 NSFW (By: Lucy Kirkwood) 2012
42 East is East (By: Ayub Khan Din) 2012
43 Mary Shelley (By: Helen Edmundson) 2012
44 Once: The Musical (By: Enda Walsh) 2013
45 The Browning Version (By: Terence Rattigan) 2013
46 random (By: debbie tucker green) 2013
47 Jez Butterworth Plays: One (By: Jez Butterworth) 2013
48 Mogadishu (By: Vivienne Franzmann) 2013
49 The Weir (By: Conor McPherson) 2013
50 #Aiww: The Arrest of AI Weiwei (By: Weiwei Ai) 2013
51 Chimerica (By: Lucy Kirkwood) 2013
52 Ciphers (By: Dawn King) 2013
53 Godchild (By: Deborah Bruce) 2013
54 Let the Right One In (By: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jack Thorne) 2013
55 The Deep Blue Sea (By: Dan Rebellato, Terence Rattigan) 2014
56 Parlour Song (By: Jez Butterworth) 2014
57 The Night Heron (By: Jez Butterworth) 2014
58 Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (By: Enda Walsh) 2014
59 The Improvisation Book: How to Conduct Successful Improvisation Sessions (By: John S.C. Abbott) 2014
60 A Hard Rain (By: Jon Bradfield) 2014
61 Love in Idleness / Less Than Kind (By: Terence Rattigan) 2014
62 Cressida (By: Nicholas Wright) 2014
63 Blood and Ice (By: Liz Lochhead) 2014
64 All the Way Home Book 0) (By: Ayub Khan Din) 2014
65 Notes on Falling Leaves Book 0) (By: Ayub Khan-Din) 2014
66 Coram Boy ( By: Jamila Gavin) 2014
67 The Clearing (By: Helen Edmundson) 2015
68 The Lioness (By: Rebecca Lenkiewicz) 2015
69 Clybourne Park (By: Bruce Norris) 2015
70 Joanne (By: Deborah Bruce) 2015
71 Elephants (By: Rose Heiney) 2016
72 Kiss Me Quickstep (By: Amanda Whittington) 2016
73 Russian Dolls (By: Kate Lock) 2016
74 This is Living (By: Liam Borrett) 2016
75 F*ck the Polar Bears (By: Tanya Ronder) 2016
76 Mr Incredible (By: Camilla Whitehill) 2016
77 Plasticine (By: Sasha Dugdale, Vassily Sigarev) 2016
78 What Shadows (By: Chris Hannan) 2016
79 Nice Fish (By: Louis Jenkins, Mark Rylance) 2016
80 Us/Them (By: Carly Wijs) 2017
81 Run (By: Stephen Laughton) 2017
82 Consent (By: Nina Raine) 2017
83 Mighty Atoms (By: Amanda Whittington) 2017
84 Sugar Baby (By: Alan Harris) 2017
85 Saying Yes (By: Griselda Gambaro, Sebastian Doggart) 2017
86 Comment is Free (By: James Fritz) 2017
87 Goats (By: Liwaa Yazji, Katharine Halls) 2017
88 Jekyll & Hyde (By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Evan Placey) 2017
89 Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer (By: Michel Tremblay, Martin Bowman, Bill Findlay) 2017
90 The Strongbox (By: Stephanie Jacob) 2018
91 Woman Caught Unaware (By: Annie Fox) 2018
92 Glitter Punch (By: Lucy Burke) 2018
93 Again (By: Stephanie Jacob) 2018
94 Battlefield (By: Peter Brook) 2018
95 Nine Night (By: Natasha Gordon) 2018
96 The Road to Huntsville (By: Stephanie Ridings) 2018
97 Blackthorn (By: Charley Miles) 2018
98 The Prisoner (By: Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne) 2018
99 The Clink (By: Stephen Jeffreys) 2018
100 Fast Labour (By: Steve Waters) 2019
101 Downstate (By: Bruce Norris) 2019
102 Beached (By: Melissa Bubnic) 2019
103 Night Time (By: Selma Dimitrijevic) 2019
104 Jez Butterworth Plays: Two (By: Jez Butterworth) 2020
105 Family: Three Plays (By: Iain Crichton Smith, Linda McLean, Riccardo Galgani) 2020
106 James V: Katherine (By: Rona Munro) 2025
Charles Dickens Anthologies
# Titre Année
1 The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories 1909
2 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1931
3 World's Great Mystery Stories 1943
4 Echoes Of Terror 1980
5 Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions 1983
6 Ghost Stories 1986
7 Christmas Ghosts 1988
8 Great Law and Order Stories 1990
9 The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror 1992
10 H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror 1993
11 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories 1993
12 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1993
13 The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993
14 Thrillers 1994
15 Spirits Of Christmas: Twenty Other-Worldly Tales 1995
16 Children's Christmas Stories and Poems 1995
17 Classic Sea Stories 1996
18 Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories 1996
19 Writing New York 1998
20 Tales of Terror: Between Heaven and the Earth 2002
21 The World's Greatest Horror Stories 2004
22 The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 2010
23 50 Classic Novellas 2011
24 London Stories 2013
25 Round the Christmas Fire 2013
26 The Phantom Coach 2014
27 That Glimpse of Truth 2014
28 Chilling Ghost Stories 2015
29 Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve 2015
30 Best Ghost Short Stories 1850-1899 2016
31 The Occult Fiction Collection 2019
32 The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 2016
33 The Greatest Books of All Time #4 2017
34 50 Halloween Stories You Have to Read Before You Die 2017
35 50 Eternal Masterpieces of Horror Stories 2017
36 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018
37 The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 2019
38 Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection 2023
39 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories 2019
40 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 2019
41 Victorian Anthologies of Classic Spectral Stories to Chill and Thrill the Senses 2020
42 Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories 2021
43 The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories 2023