Charles Dickens bibliography

The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories and baby stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles. Dickens's novels were serialized initially in weekly or monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.

Notable works by Charles Dickens[]

Novels and novellas[]

Title	Publication	Notes
The Pickwick Papers	Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837^[1]
Oliver Twist	Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839
Nicholas Nickleby	Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839
The Old Curiosity Shop	Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840 to 6 February 1841
Barnaby Rudge	Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841	Historical novel
Martin Chuzzlewit	Monthly serial, December 1842 to July 1844
A Christmas Carol	1843	Christmas novella; a ghost story
The Chimes	1844	Christmas novella
The Cricket on the Hearth	1845	Christmas novella
The Battle of Life	1846	Christmas novella
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain	1848	Christmas novella; a ghost story
Dombey and Son	Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848
David Copperfield	Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850
Bleak House	Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853
Hard Times	Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854
Little Dorrit	Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857
A Tale of Two Cities	Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859	Historical novel
Great Expectations	Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861
Our Mutual Friend	Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870.	Unfinished - Only six of twelve planned numbers completed

Short stories[]

The Lamplighter (1838)
(1850)
(1850)
To be Read at Dusk (1852) (a ghost story)
The Long Voyage (1853)

(1855)
(1855)
Hunted Down (1859)
The Signal-Man (1866) (a ghost story)
(1868)
Holiday Romance (1868)

(part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story)
(part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story)
(part of Nicholas Nickleby; a ghost story)
(part of Nicholas Nickleby)
(part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story)
(part of ; a ghost story)
(part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story)

Christmas short stories[]

"" (1850)
" " (1851)
" " (1852)
"" (1852)
"" (1853)
"" (1853)
"" (1854; collaboration)

"" (1855; collaboration)
"" (1856; collaboration)
"" (1857; collaboration)
"" (1858)
"A Message from the Sea" (1860; collaboration)
"Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861; collaboration)
"" (1862)

"" (1863; collaboration)
"" (1864; collaboration)
"" (1865)
"The Trial for Murder" (1865; collaboration; a ghost story)
"Mugby Junction" (1866; collaboration)
"The Signal-Man" (1866; a ghost story)
"No Thoroughfare" (1867; collaboration)

Collaborative works[]

"" (1854) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Procter, George Sala and Eliza Linton – about the Six Poor Travellers House)
"" (1855) (with Wilkie Collins, William Howitt, Harriet Parr and Adelaide Procter)
"" (1856) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Procter, Harriet Parr, Percy Fitzgerald and )
"" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins)
"" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins)
"A House to Let" (1858) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Procter)
"The Haunted House" (1859) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Procter, George Sala and Hesba Stretton; a ghost story)
"A Message from the Sea" (1860) (with Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and Harriet Parr)
"Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861) (with Wilkie Collins, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and John Harwood)
"" (1863) and "" (1864) (with Elizabeth Gaskell, Andrew Halliday, Edmund Yates, Amelia Edwards, Charles Allston Collins, Rosa Mulholland, Henry Spicer, Hesba Stretton)
"The Trial for Murder" (1865) (with Charles Allston Collins; a ghost story)
"Mugby Junction" (1866) (with Andrew Halliday, Hesba Stretton, Charles Allston Collins and Amelia Edwards)
"No Thoroughfare" (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)

Short story collections[]

Sketches by Boz (1836)
The Mudfog Papers (1837–8) aka
(1838)
(1840)
Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–41)
(1858)
(1861)

Nonfiction, poetry, and plays[]

1838 Poster advertisement for Memoirs of Grimaldi

(1836) (under the pseudonym "Timothy Sparks")
(play, 1836)
(comic opera, 1836)
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838), edited by Dickens under his regular nom de plume, "Boz".
(poetry, 1841)
American Notes for General Circulation (1842)
Pictures from Italy (1846)

(1849)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Frozen Deep (play, 1857)
The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–69)
(1870)
(1851–70, pub. 1982)
(1885)

Articles and essays[]

"" (1835; also known as "A Christmas Dinner")
""
"Frauds on the Fairies"
""
"The Lost Arctic Voyagers" (1854)
"The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew"

Letters[]

Editing and publication of Dickens's letters started in 1949 when publisher Rupert Hart-Davis persuaded of Wadham College, Oxford, to edit a complete edition of the letters. House died suddenly aged 46 in 1955. However, the work continued, and by 2002 Volume 12 had been published.^[2] The letters are collected chronologically; thus volume 1 covers the years 1820-1839; volume 2, 1840-1841; volume 3, 1842-1843; volume 4, 1844-1846; volume 5, 1847-1849; volume 6, 1850-1852; volume 7, 1853-1855; volume 8, 1856-1858; volume 9, 1859-1861; volume 10, 1862-1864; volume 11, 1865-1867; and volume 12, 1868-1870.^[3]

Notes[]

^ E. D. H. Johnson, Chronology of Novels (from Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Novels 1969), Princeton University, retrieved 11 June 2007
^ Hart-Davis, Rupert (1998). Halfway to Heaven: Concluding memoirs of a literary life. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton. p. 42. ISBN 0-7509-1837-3.
^ Dickens, Charles. Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition. General editors: Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002.

External links[]

Works by Charles Dickens at Project Gutenberg, HTML and plain text versions.
Works by Charles Dickens at Faded Page (Canada)
Works by or about Charles Dickens at Internet Archive

[1] E. D. H. Johnson, Chronology of Novels (from Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Novels 1969), Princeton University, retrieved 11 June 2007

[2] Hart-Davis, Rupert (1998). Halfway to Heaven: Concluding memoirs of a literary life. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton. p. 42. ISBN 0-7509-1837-3.

[pilgrim-3] Dickens, Charles. Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition. General editors: Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002.

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