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It was as true as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them. - Charles Dickens Attribution: Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Mr. Barkis, in David Copperfield, ch. 21 (1849-1850). This remark echoes Benjamin Franklin’s famous gloomy observation on the inevitability of taxes (Franklin on certainty).

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Charles Dickens

Titles by Charles Dickens:

• A Christmas Carol
• A Tale of Two Cities
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• Hard Times
• Oliver Twist

Salem on History:

• Charles Dickens

Critical Companions:

• Dickens, Charles (1812 - 1870) (Gothic Literature)

eNotes:

• Examining Financial Difficulties on Victorian Families as Represented in Edgar's Adaption of the Charles Dickens Novel (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
• Historical Context of the David Edgar'sa adaptation of the Charles Dickens Novel (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
• Illustration by Frederic W. Pailthorpe from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Bildungsroman)
• Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
• Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
• Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
• Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

Encyclopedia:

• Dickens, Charles (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Dickens, Charles (John Huffam) (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Dickens, Charles John Huffham (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Dickens, Charles (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Biographies:

• Dickens, Charles (Crime and Punishment in America)

Primary Sources:

• Dickens, Charles (Crime and Punishment in America)

Salem on Literature:

• Charles Dickens (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Charles Dickens (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Charles Dickens (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Charles Dickens (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Charles Dickens (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
• Charles Dickens (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
• Charles Dickens (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Charles Dickens (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (Magill Book Reviews)

eText:

• Preface To The Charles Dickens Edition (David Copperfield)

Literary Criticism:

• Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Dickens, Charles Hard Times for These Times (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Dickens, Charles (Short Story Criticism)
• A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Charles Dickens is born
• Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol
• Charles Dickens publishes The Personal History of David Copperfield
• Charles Dickens founds the magazine Household Words in London
• Charles Dickens publishes Bleak House
• Charles Dickens publishes A Tale of Two Cities
• Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations
• Charles Dickens dies