The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia, Michael & Mollie Hardwick

This is one of the most comprehensive, detailed and accurate single-volume reference books on the life and work of Charles Dickens ever compiled. Dickens is one of the greatest and most prolific of all English writers, and his output covers an enormous range, for as well as fifteen novels he also wrote plays and short stories, lectured widely, and published many papers on social, educational and penal reform.