Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens rare books, first editions and signed manuscripts for sale and auction. We have the rarest Charles Dickens first editions for sale here along with Charles Dickens historical documents and antique manuscripts including versions of his best known works which include A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickelby, Hard Times to name buy a few.

Charles Dickens rare books

Charles Dickens rare books, first editions and signed manuscripts for sale and auction. We have the rarest Charles Dickens first editions for sale here along with Charles Dickens historical documents and antique manuscripts including versions of his best known works which include A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickelby, Hard Times to name but a few. Charles Dickens was a popular living writer in Victorian times and his repuation has not diminished over time. His books vividly evoke the Victorian era and have been widely filmed and adapted for movies.

Dickens is famed for his depiction of the hardships of the working class, his intricate plots, his sense of humour. But he is perhaps most famed for the characters he created. His novels were heralded early in his career for their ability to capture the everyday man and thus create characters to whom readers could relate. Beginning with Pickwick Papers in 1836, Dickens wrote numerous novels, each uniquely filled with believable personalities and vivid physical descriptions. Dickens's friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made "characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves." Charles Dickens rare books are, unsurprisingly, highly sought after.

Dickensian characters—especially their typically whimsical names—are among the most memorable in English literature. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, Uriah Heep and many others are so well known and can be believed to be living a life outside the novels that their stories have been continued by other authors.

The author worked closely with his illustrators supplying them with a summary of the work at the outset and thus ensuring that his characters and settings were exactly how he envisioned them.He would brief the illustrator on plans for each month's instalment so that work could begin before he wrote them. Marcus Stone, illustrator of Our Mutual Friend, recalled that the author was always "ready to describe down to the minutest details the personal characteristics, and ... life-history of the creations of his fancy." This close working relationship is important to readers of Dickens today. The illustrations give us a glimpse of the characters as Dickens described them. Film makers are still using the illustrations as a basis for characterisation, costume, and set design.

Often these characters were based on people he knew. In a few instances Dickens based the character too closely on the original, as in the case of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House, based on Leigh Hunt, and Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, based on his wife's dwarf chiropodist. Indeed, the acquaintances made when reading a Dickens novel are not easily forgotten. The author, Virginia Woolf, maintained that "we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens" as he produces "characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks." If you collect books then you'll find some fine Charles Dickens rare books for sale below.

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