THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP

By Charles Dickens

DAVID COPPERFIELD

By Charles Dickens

	PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION
	PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION
	THE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER
CHAPTER 1.	I AM BORN
CHAPTER 2.	I OBSERVE
CHAPTER 3.	I HAVE A CHANGE
CHAPTER 4.	I FALL INTO DISGRACE
CHAPTER 5.	I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
CHAPTER 6.	I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER 7.	MY ‘FIRST HALF’ AT SALEM HOUSE
CHAPTER 8.	MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
CHAPTER 9.	I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER 10.	I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
CHAPTER 11.	I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON’T LIKE IT
CHAPTER 12.	LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FORM A GREAT RESOLUTION
CHAPTER 13.	THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
CHAPTER 14.	MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
CHAPTER 15.	I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
CHAPTER 16.	I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
CHAPTER 17.	SOMEBODY TURNS UP
CHAPTER 18.	A RETROSPECT
CHAPTER 19.	I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 20.	STEERFORTH’S HOME
CHAPTER 21.	LITTLE EM’LY
CHAPTER 22.	SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
CHAPTER 23.	I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION
CHAPTER 24.	MY FIRST DISSIPATION
CHAPTER 25.	GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
CHAPTER 26.	I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER 27.	TOMMY TRADDLES
CHAPTER 28.	Mr. MICAWBER’S GAUNTLET
CHAPTER 29.	I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
CHAPTER 30.	A LOSS
CHAPTER 31.	A GREATER LOSS
CHAPTER 32.	THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
CHAPTER 33.	BLISSFUL
CHAPTER 34.	MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
CHAPTER 35.	DEPRESSION
CHAPTER 36.	ENTHUSIASM
CHAPTER 37.	A LITTLE COLD WATER
CHAPTER 38.	A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
CHAPTER 39.	WICKFIELD AND HEEP
CHAPTER 40.	THE WANDERER
CHAPTER 41.	DORA’S AUNTS
CHAPTER 42.	MISCHIEF
CHAPTER 43.	ANOTHER RETROSPECT
CHAPTER 44.	OUR HOUSEKEEPING
CHAPTER 45.	MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT’S PREDICTIONS
CHAPTER 46.	INTELLIGENCE
CHAPTER 47.	MARTHA
CHAPTER 48.	DOMESTIC
CHAPTER 49.	I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
CHAPTER 50.	Mr. PEGGOTTY’S DREAM COMES TRUE
CHAPTER 51.	THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
CHAPTER 52.	I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
CHAPTER 53.	ANOTHER RETROSPECT
CHAPTER 54.	Mr. MICAWBER’S TRANSACTIONS
CHAPTER 55.	TEMPEST
CHAPTER 56.	THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
CHAPTER 57.	THE EMIGRANTS
CHAPTER 58.	ABSENCE
CHAPTER 59.	RETURN
CHAPTER 60.	AGNES
CHAPTER 61.	I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
CHAPTER 62.	A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
CHAPTER 63.	A VISITOR
CHAPTER 64.	A LAST RETROSPECT

HARD TIMES

By Charles Dickens

BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING
	PAGE
CHAPTER I
The One Thing Needful	3
CHAPTER II
Murdering the Innocents	4
CHAPTER III
A Loophole	8
CHAPTER IV
Mr. Bounderby	12
CHAPTER V
The Keynote	18
CHAPTER VI
Sleary’s Horsemanship	23
CHAPTER VII
Mrs. Sparsit	33
CHAPTER VIII
Never Wonder	38
CHAPTER IX
Sissy’s Progress	43
CHAPTER X
Stephen Blackpool	49
CHAPTER XI
No Way Out	53
CHAPTER XII
The Old Woman	59
CHAPTER XIII
Rachael	63
CHAPTER XIV
The Great Manufacturer	69
CHAPTER XV
Father and Daughter	73
CHAPTER XVI
Husband and Wife	79
BOOK THE SECOND. REAPING
CHAPTER I
Effects in the Bank	84
CHAPTER II
Mr. James Harthouse	94
CHAPTER III
The Whelp	101
CHAPTER IV
Men and Brothers	111
CHAPTER V
Men and Masters	105
CHAPTER VI
Fading Away	116
CHAPTER VII
Gunpowder	126
CHAPTER VIII
Explosion	136
CHAPTER IX
Hearing the Last of it	146
CHAPTER X
Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase	152
CHAPTER XI
Lower and Lower	156
CHAPTER XII
Down	163
BOOK THE THIRD. GARNERING
CHAPTER I
Another Thing Needful	167
CHAPTER II
Very Ridiculous	172
CHAPTER III
Very Decided	179
CHAPTER IV
Lost	186
CHAPTER V
Found	193
CHAPTER VI
The Starlight	200
CHAPTER VII
Whelp-Hunting	208
CHAPTER VIII
Philosophical	216
CHAPTER IX
Final	222

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Stephen and Rachael in the Sick-room	64
Mr. Harthouse Dining at the Bounderbys’	100
Mr. Harthouse and Tom Gradgrind in the Garden	132
Stephen Blackpool recovered from the Old Hell Shaft	206

DOMBEY AND SON

By Charles Dickens

CHAPTER 1	Dombey and Son
CHAPTER 2	In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families
CHAPTER 3	In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department
CHAPTER 4	In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures
CHAPTER 5	Paul’s Progress and Christening
CHAPTER 6	Paul’s Second Deprivation
CHAPTER 7	A Bird’s-eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-place: also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections
CHAPTER 8	Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character
CHAPTER 9	In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble
CHAPTER 10	Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster
CHAPTER 11	Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene
CHAPTER 12	Paul’s Education
CHAPTER 13	Shipping Intelligence and Office Business
CHAPTER 14	Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays
CHAPTER 15	Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay
CHAPTER 16	What the Waves were always saying
CHAPTER 17	Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People
CHAPTER 18	Father and Daughter
CHAPTER 19	Walter goes away
CHAPTER 20	Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey
CHAPTER 21	New Faces
CHAPTER 22	A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager
CHAPTER 23	Florence solitary, and the Midshipman mysterious
CHAPTER 24	The Study of a Loving Heart
CHAPTER 25	Strange News of Uncle Sol
CHAPTER 26	Shadows of the Past and Future
CHAPTER 27	Deeper Shadows
CHAPTER 28	Alterations
CHAPTER 29	The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick
CHAPTER 30	The interval before the Marriage
CHAPTER 31	The Wedding
CHAPTER 32	The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces
CHAPTER 33	Contrasts
CHAPTER 34	Another Mother and Daughter
CHAPTER 35	The Happy Pair
CHAPTER 36	Housewarming
CHAPTER 37	More Warnings than One
CHAPTER 38	Miss Tox improves an Old Acquaintance
CHAPTER 39	Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner
CHAPTER 40	Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 41	New Voices in the Waves
CHAPTER 42	Confidential and Accidental
CHAPTER 43	The Watches of the Night
CHAPTER 44	A Separation
CHAPTER 45	The Trusty Agent
CHAPTER 46	Recognizant and Reflective
CHAPTER 47	The Thunderbolt
CHAPTER 48	The Flight of Florence
CHAPTER 49	The Midshipman makes a Discovery
CHAPTER 50	Mr Toots’s Complaint
CHAPTER 51	Mr Dombey and the World
CHAPTER 52	Secret Intelligence
CHAPTER 53	More Intelligence
CHAPTER 54	The Fugitives
CHAPTER 55	Rob the Grinder loses his Place
CHAPTER 56	Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted
CHAPTER 57	Another Wedding
CHAPTER 58	After a Lapse
CHAPTER 59	Retribution
CHAPTER 60	Chiefly Matrimonial
CHAPTER 61	Relenting
CHAPTER 62	Final
PREFACE OF 1848
PREFACE OF 1867

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP

By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

DAVID COPPERFIELD

By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

HARD TIMES

By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

DOMBEY AND SON

By Charles Dickens

CONTENTS