The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–70) includes more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost 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
Major works
A chronological list of Dickens' major works
Novels and novellas
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| The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club |
Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837[2] |
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| Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress |
Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839 |
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| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839 |
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| The Old Curiosity Shop |
Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840 to 6 February 1841 |
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| Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty |
Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841 |
Historical Novel |
| A Christmas Carol, In Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas |
1843 |
Christmas novella; a ghost story |
| The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit |
Monthly serial, December 1842 to July 1844 |
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| The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In |
1844 |
Christmas novella |
| The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home |
1845 |
Christmas novella |
| The Battle of Life: A Love Story |
1846 |
Christmas novella |
| Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation |
Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848 |
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| The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time |
1848 |
Christmas novella; a ghost story |
| The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery |
Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850 |
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| Bleak House |
Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853 |
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| Hard Times: For These Times |
Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854 |
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| Little Dorrit |
Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857 |
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| 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 |
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| Our Mutual Friend |
Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865 |
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| The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. |
Unfinished - Only six of twelve planned numbers completed |
Short stories
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- "Prince Bull" (1855)
- "Thousand and One Humbugs" (1855)
- "Hunted Down" (1859)
- "The Signal-Man" (1866) (a ghost story)
- "George Silverman's Explanation" (1868)
- "Holiday Romance" (1868)
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Christmas short stories
- "A Christmas Tree" (1850)
- "What Christmas is, as We Grow Older" (1851)
- "The Poor Relation's Story" (1852)
- "The Child's Story" (1852)
- "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853)
- "Nobody's Story" (1853)
- "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854)
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- "The Holly-tree Inn" (1855)
- "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856)
- "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857)
- "Going into Society" (1858)
- "A Message from the Sea" (1860)
- "Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861)
- "Somebody's Luggage" (1862)
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- "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863)
- "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy" (1864)
- "Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" (1865)
- "The Trial for Murder" (1865; a ghost story)
- "Mugby Junction" (1866)
- "The Signal-Man" (1866; a ghost story)
- "No Thoroughfare" (1867)
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Collaborative works
- "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Procter, George Sala and Eliza Linton – about the Six Poor Travellers House)
- "The Holly-tree Inn" (1855) (with Wilkie Collins, William Howitt, Harriet Parr and Adelaide Procter)
- "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Procter, Harriet Parr, Percy Fitzgerald and Reverend James White)
- "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857) (with Wilkie Collins)
- "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" (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)
- "Mrs Lirripers Lodgings (1863) & Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (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)
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Short story collections
Nonfiction, poetry, and plays
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- The Frozen Deep (play, 1857)
- The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–69)
- Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870)
- Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1851–70, pub. 1982)
- The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens (1885)
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Articles and essays
Letters
Editing and publication of Dickens's letters started in 1949 when publisher Rupert Hart-Davis persuaded Humphry House 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 1997 Volume 9 had been published.[3]
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