Charles Reade's Works

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[Unless otherwise noted, e-texts listed are available at Project Gutenberg. — George P. Landow]

Peg Woffington (1852) (e-text)*

• “preposterous incident of the living portrait” —A. C. Swinburne

It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1856) (e-text)*

The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) (e-text)*

• High praise by A. C. Swinburne

Griffth Gaunt

• Discussion by A. C. Swinburne — “his masterpiece”

Hard Cash (1863) (e-text)*

• Discussion by A. C. Swinburne
• Discussion by George Orwell

Foul Play (with Dion Boucicault) (1868) (e-text)*

Put Yourself in His Place (1870) (e-text)*

• Discussion by A. C. Swinburne — “the construction or composition of the story is a model of ingenuity, delicacy, and vigour”

A Simpleton

• Discussion by A. C. Swinburne

White Lies (e-text)*

A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day (e-text)*

Related Materials

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches in the complete texts of fourteen of Reade's works

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