The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

by John Forster

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Contents

  1. Note to the Present Edition
  2. Chapter I. Childhood. 1812-1822
  3. Chapter II. Hard Experiences in Boyhood. 1822-1824
  4. Chapter III. School-Days and Start in Life. 1824-1830
  5. Chapter IV. Reporters' Gallery and Newspaper Literature. 1831-1835
  6. Chapter V. First Book, and Origin of Pickwick
  7. Chapter VI. Writing the Pickwick Papers
  8. Chapter VII. Between Pickwick and Nickleby. 1837-1838
  9. Chapter VIII. Oliver Twist
  10. Chapter IX. Nicholas Nickleby. 1838-1839
  11. Chapter X. During and After Nickleby. 1838-1839
  12. Chapter XI. New Literary Project
  13. Chapter XII. The Old Curiosity Shop. 1840-1841
  14. Chapter XIII. Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs
  15. Chapter XIV. Barnaby Rudge
  16. Chapter XV. Public Dinner in Edinburgh
  17. Chapter XVI. Adventures in the Highlands
  18. Chapter XVII. Again at Broadstairs
  19. Chapter XVIII. Eve of the Visit to America
  20. Chapter XIX. First Impressions of America
  21. Chapter XX. Second Impressions of America
  22. Chapter XXI. Philadelphia, Washington, and the South
  23. Chapter XXII. Canal-Boat Journeys: Bound Far West
  24. Chapter XXIII. The Far West: To Niagara Falls
  25. Chapter XXIV. Niagara and Montreal
  26. Corrections Made in the Later Editions of the First Volume
  27. Chapter I. American Notes
  28. Chapter II. First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit
  29. Chapter III. Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol. 1843-1844
  30. Chapter IV. Year of Departure for Italy
  31. Chapter V. Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello
  32. Chapter VI. Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere
  33. Chapter VII. Italian Travel
  34. Chapter VIII. Last Months in Italy
  35. Chapter IX. Again in England. 1845-1846
  36. Chapter X. A Home in Switzerland
  37. Chapter XI. Swiss People and Scenery
  38. Chapter XII. Sketches Chiefly Personal
  39. Chapter XIII. Literary Labour at Lausanne
  40. Chapter XIV. Revolution at Geneva, Christmas Book, and Last Days in Switzerland
  41. Chapter XV. Three Months in Paris. 1846-1847
  42. Chapter XVI. Dombey and Son. 1846-1848
  43. Chapter XVII. Splendid Strolling. 1847-1852
  44. Chapter XVIII. Seaside Holidays. 1848-1851
  45. Chapter XIX. Haunted Man and Household Words. 1848-1850
  46. Chapter XX. Last Years in Devonshire Terrace. 1848-1851
  47. Chapter I. David Copperfield and Bleak House. 1850-1853
  48. Chapter II. Home Incidents and Hard Times. 1853-1854-1855
  49. Chapter III. Switzerland and Italy Revisited
  50. Chapter IV. Three Summers at Boulogne. 1853, 1854, and 1856
  51. Chapter V. Residence in Paris. 1855-1856
  52. Chapter VI. Little Dorrit, and a Lazy Tour. 1855-1857
  53. Chapter VII. What Happened at This Time. 1857-1858
  54. Chapter VIII. Gadshill Place. 1856-1870
  55. Chapter IX. First Paid Readings. 1858-1859
  56. Chapter X. All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller. 1859-1861
  57. Chapter XI. Second Series of Readings. 1861-1863
  58. Chapter XII. Hints for Books Written and Unwritten. 1855-1865
  59. Chapter XIII. Third Series of Readings. 1864-1867
  60. Chapter XIV. Dickens as a Novelist. 1836-1870
  61. Chapter XV. America Revisited: November and December 1867
  62. Chapter XVI. America Revisited: January to April 1868
  63. Chapter XVII. Last Readings. 1868-1870
  64. Chapter XVIII. Last Book. 1869-1870
  65. Chapter XIX. Personal Characteristics. 1836-1870
  66. 1869-1870
  67. I. The Writings of Charles Dickens
  68. II. The Will of Charles Dickens
  69. III. Corrections Made in the Later Editions of the Second Volume

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