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The Digitization Project

1. Charles Dickens
   1. J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels
   2. Paul Schlicke, Dickens and Popular Entertainment
   3. Dennis Walder, Dickens and Religion
2. Elizabeth Gaskell
   1. Edgar Wright, Mrs. Gaskell: The Basis for Reassessment
   2. A. W. Ward, Introductions to the Knutsford edition
3. George Gissing
   1. Jacob Korg, George Gissing: A Critical Biography

Charles Dickens

• The Multi-Media Text of A Christmas Carol
• The Life of Charles Dickens (John Forster) (1.9MB)
• Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (George Gissing) (452KB)
• The Immortal Dickens (George Gissing) (258KB)
• Charles Dickens (G. K. Chesterton) (387KB)
• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (G. K. Chesterton) (452KB)
• Charles Dickens (Alan Shelston) (78KB)
• Dickens Humour: An Anthology
• Dickens and Madness
  1. "A Madman's Manuscript" (The Pickwick Club, Chapter XI)
  2. "A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree" (Household Words, 17 January 1852)
  3. "Idiots" (Household Words, 4 June 1853)
• Dickens and the Supernatural
  1. "To be Taken with a Grain of Salt" (All the Year Round, Christmas Number, 1865)
• Letters
  1. Letters of Charles Dickens to Elizabeth Gaskell
  2. Letters of Elizabeth Gaskell to Charles Dickens
• Japanese Translations
  1. An old Japanese translation of A Christmas Carol by Sohei Morita
• Misc.
  1. Charles Dickens, "Mr. Booley" (Household Words, 1850)
  2. Pierre Coustillas, "Gissing's Writings on Dickens"
  3. HOUSEHOLD WORDS: A PRELIMINARY WORD

Elizabeth Gaskell

Novels

1. Mary Barton (903KB)
   1. Part One
   2. Part Two
   3. Part Three
   4. Part Four
2. The Moorland Cottage (205K)
3. Ruth (903KB)
   1. Part One
   2. Part Two
4. Cranford (387KB)
   • Full (396K)
   • Illustrated (16 chapters)
   • Abridged (247K)
5. North and South (1MB)
   1. Volume One (463K)
   2. Volume Two (523K)
6. The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1MB)
   1. Part One (485K)
   2. Part Two (495K)
7. My Lady Ludlow (452KB)
   1. Part One (204K)
   2. Part Two (221K)
8. A Dark Night's Work (387KB)
9. Sylvia's Lovers (1MB)
   1. Part One (253K)
   2. Part Two (275K)
   3. Part Three (270K)
   4. Part Four (270K)
10. Cousin Phillis (258K)
11. Wives and Daughters (1.4MB)
    1. Part One (Chapters I - X, 286K)
    2. Part Two (Chapters XXI - XX, 259K)
    3. Part Three (Chapters XXI - XXX, 259K)
    4. Part Four (Chapters XXXI - XL, 242K)
    5. Part Five (Chapters XLI - L, 237K)
    6. Part Six (Chapters LI - LX, 242K)
    7. Part Seven (Concluding Remarks, 17K)

Short Stories

1. "Sketches among the Poor, No. 1" (7K)
2. "Clopton Hall" (17K)
3. "Libbie Marsh's Three Eras" (61K)
4. "The Sexton's Hero" (22K)
5. "Christmas Storms and Sunshine" (24K)
6. "Hand and Heart" (41K, 1 July 1996)
7. "The Last Generation in England" (22K)
8. "Lizzie Leigh" (68K)
9. "The Well of Pen-Morfa" (48K)
10. "The Heart of John Middleton" (51K)
11. "Mr Harrison's Confessions" (164K)
12. "Disappearances" (26K)
13. "Bessy's Troubles at Home" (41K)
14. "The Shah's English Gardener" (33K)
15. "The Old Nurse's Story" (49K)
16. "Cumberland Sheep Shearers" (43K)
17. "Bran" (6K)
18. "Morton Hall" (90K)
19. "Traits and Stories of the Huguenots" (34K)
20. "My French Master" (51K)
21. "The Squire's Story" (35K)
22. "The Scholar's Story" (12K)
23. "Uncle Peter" (82K)
24. "Modern Greek Songs" (43K)
25. "Company Manners" (51K)
26. "An Accursed Race" (51K)
27. "A Visit To Eton" (11K)
28. "A Fear for the Future" (22K)
29. "Martha Preston" (29K)
30. "Half a Lifetime Ago" (99K)
31. "The Poor Clare" (137K)
32. "The Doom of the Griffiths" (79K)
33. "Right at Last" (48K)
34. "The Manchester Marriage" (61K)
35. "The Half-Brothers" (26K)
36. "Lois the Witch" (204K)
37. "The Crooked Branch" (100K)
38. "Curious if True" (36K)
39. "The Grey Woman" (127K)
40. "Six Weeks at Heppenheim" (82K)
41. "Shams" (30K)
42. "An Italian Institution" (26K)
43. "The Cage at Cranford" (28K)
44. "French Life" (162K)
45. "Crowley Castle" (80K)
46. "Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family" (68K)
47. "Two Fragments of Ghost Stories" (14K)
48. "Robert Gould Shaw" (17K)

George Gissing

Novels, Essays, and Critical Works

1. Workers in the Dawn
2. The Unclassed
3. Isabel Clarendon
4. Demos
5. Thyrza
6. A Life's Morning
7. The Nether World
8. The Emancipated
9. New Grub Street
10. Denzil Quarrier
11. Born in Exile
12. The Odd Women
13. In the Year of Jubilee
14. Eve's Ransom
15. The Paying Guest
16. Sleeping Fires
17. The Whirlpool
18. Human Odds and Ends
19. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
20. The Town Traveller
21. The Crown of Life
22. Our Friend the Charlatan
23. By the Ionian Sea (PDF)
24. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
25. Veranilda
26. Will Warburton
27. The House of Cobwebs
28. The Sins of the Fathers and Other Tales
29. The Immortal Dickens
30. A Victim of Circumstances and Other Stories

• The Private Life of Henry Maitland (Peter Morton)

Short Stories

• Human Odds and Ends
  1. "Comrades in Arms"
  2. "The Justice and the Vagabond"
  3. "The Firebrand"
  4. "An Inspiration"
  5. "The Poet's Portmanteau"
  6. "The Day of Silence"
  7. "In Honour Bound"
  8. "The Prize Lodger"
  9. "Our Mr. Jupp"
  10. "The Medicine Man"
  11. "Raw Material"
  12. "Two Collectors"
  13. "An Old Maid's Triumph"
  14. "The Invincible Curate"
  15. "The Tout of Yarmouth Bridge"
  16. "A Well-Meaning Man"
  17. "A Song of Sixpence"
  18. "A Profitable Weakness"
  19. "The Beggar's Nurse"
  20. "Transplanted"
  21. "A Parent's Feelings"
  22. "Lord Dunfield"
  23. "The Little Woman from Lancashire"
  24. "In No-Man's Land"
  25. "At High Pressure"
  26. "A Conversion"
  27. "A Free Woman"
  28. "A Son of the Soil"
  29. "Out of the Fashion"

• The House of Cobwebs
  1. "The House of Cobwebs"
  2. "A Capitalist"
  3. "Christopherson"
  4. "Humplebee"
  5. "The Scrupulous Father"
  6. "A Poor Gentleman"
  7. "Miss Rodney's Leisure"
  8. "A Charming Family"
  9. "A Daughter of the Lodge"
  10. "The Riding-Whip"
  11. "Topham's Chance"
  12. "Fate and the Apothecary"
  13. "A Lodger in Maze Pond"
  14. "The Salt of the Earth"
  15. "The Pig and Whistle"

• A Victim of Circumstances
  1. "A Victim of Circumstances"
  2. "One Way of Happiness"
  3. "The Fate of Humphrey Snell"
  4. "A Despot on Tour"
  5. "The Elixir"
  6. "A Poor Gentleman"
  7. "The Light on the Tower"
  8. "The Schoolmaster's Vision"
  9. "The Honeymoon"
  10. "The Pessimist of Plato Road"
  11. "The Foolish Virgin"
  12. "Lou and Liz"
  13. "The Tyrant's Apology"
  14. "Spellbound"
  15. "Our Learned Fellow-Townsman"
  16. "Fleet-Footed Hester"

• The Sins of the Fathers and Other Tales
  1. "The Sins of the Fathers"
  2. "Gretchen"
  3. "R. I. P."
  4. "Too Dearly Bought"

• Others
  1. "Lou and Liz"
  2. "A Victim of Circumstances"
  3. "Fleet-Footed Hester"
  4. "Their Pretty Ways"
  5. "The Fate of Humphrey Snell"
  6. "The Foolish Virgin"
  7. "The Light on the Tower"
  8. "One Way of Happiness"
  9. "The Ring Finger"
  10. "A Freak of Nature"
  11. "The Elixir"
  12. "The Last Half-Crown"
  13. "Simple Simon"
  14. "Joseph"
  15. "My First Rehearsal"
  16. "My Clerical Rival"

Brontë Sisters

Charlotte Brontë

1. Jane Eyre (1MB)
   • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-XII)
   • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XIII-XXI)
   • PART THREE (CHAPTERS XXIII-XXIX)
   • PART FOUR (CHAPTERS XXX-XXXVIII)
2. Shirley (1.2MB)
   • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-IX)
   • PART TWO (CHAPTERS X-XVIII)
   • PART THREE (CHAPTERS XIX-XXVIII)
   • PART FOUR (CHAPTERS XXIX-XXXVII)
3. Villette (1.1MB)
   • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-XV)
   • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XVI-XXVIII)
   • PART THREE (CHAPTERS XXIX-XLII)
4. The Professor (581KB)
   • Accents
     • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-XV)
     • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XVI-XXV)
   • Non-accents
     • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-XV)
     • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XVI-XXV)

Emily Brontë

1. Wuthering Heights (710KB)
   • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-X)
   • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XI-XX)
   • PART THREE (CHAPTERS XXI-XXIX)

Anne Brontë

1. Agnes Grey (387KB)
   • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-XIII)
   • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XIV-XXV)
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (968KB)
   • PART ONE (CHAPTERS I-XVIII)
   • PART TWO (CHAPTERS XIX-XXXV)
   • PART THREE (CHAPTERS XXXVI-LIII)

George Eliot

• Daniel Deronda
  1. THE SPOILED CHILD
  2. MEETING STREAMS
  3. MAIDENS CHOOSING
  4. GWENDOLEN GETS HER CHOICE
  5. MORDECAI
  6. REVELATIONS
  7. THE MOTHER AND THE SON
  8. FRUIT AND SEED

Kan Kikuchi

• The Return of the Father
• Lunatic on the Roof
• A Hero of the Sea
• Times Have Changed
• An Imitator
• Jinbeh: A Public-Minded Man
• Beyond Revenge
• Tojuro in Love

Others

• Victorian Ghost Stories
  1. Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story"
  2. Charles Dickens, "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt"
  3. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "An Account of Some Disturbances in Aungier Street"
  4. Wilkie Collins, "Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman"
  5. Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "At Chrighton Abbey"
  6. Thomas Hardy, "The Withered Arm"
  7. Bram Stoker, "The Judge's House"
  8. George MacDonald, "Uncle Cornelius His Story"
  9. Mrs Craik (Dinah Maria Mulock), "The Last House in C---- Street"
  10. Thomas Hardy, "The Withered Arm"
  11. Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Body-Snatcher"
  12. Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Captain of the 'Pole-star'"
  13. Rudyard Kipling, "At the End of the Passage"
• Mrs. G. Linnaeus BanksThe Manchester Man

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