Library Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, in Six Volumes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Barnaby Rudge, Sketches by Boz; Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes; Dombey and Son, Old Curiosity Shop, Hard Times; Our Mutual …

Complete in six volumes. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations with blind-stamped designs on front and rear board. Illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and Hablot Knight Browne. Includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Barnaby Rudge, Sketches by Boz; Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes; Dombey and Son, Old Curiosity Shop, Hard Times; Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit, Reprinted Pieces; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations, Bleak House, Pictures from Italy; David Copperfield, Christmas Stories, A Tale of Two Cities, Uncommercial Traveller. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticized it for sentimentality and implausibility."