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Dickens, Charles John Huffam

Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. London: Sinclair-Stevenson; Minerva, Huge tour-de-force of a biography by another novelist immersed in the London scene, with extraordinary fictional and visionary interpolations. Also published in abridged form, London: Mandarin, 1994.

Bentley, Nicolas, Slater, Michael, and Burgis, Nina. The Dickens Index. Oxford University Press, 1988. Invaluable and exhaustive guidance round Dickens' huge output.

Chesterton, G. K. Charles Dickens. New York: Schocken Books, 1965. Classic biography and criticism, first published 1906.

Dickens, Charles. The Letters of Charles Dickens. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Multi-volume complete edition; various editors.

Hardwick, Michael, and Hardwick, Mollie. The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia. Reading: Osprey; London: Macdonald Futura, Enjoyable encyclopaedic guide to the great 19th century novelist's work.

Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: his Tragedy and Triumph. Harmondsworth: Penguin; New York: Viking; London: Allen Lane, Literary biography for the general reader.

Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: a Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. Substantial biography for the general reader.

Levit, Fred. A Dickens Glossary. New York; London: Garland, 1990. 450-page reference work.

Mackenzie, Norman, and Mackenzie, Jeanne. Dickens: a Life. Oxford University Press, 1979. Solid biography of the English novelist, relating his works to his life and times.

Page, Norman. A Dickens Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.