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Works by Charles Dickens
The bibliography of Charles Dickens includes more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories (including a number of Christmas-themed stories), a handful of plays, several nonfiction books, and individual essays and articles. Dickens' novels were initially serialized in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.
Notable works by Charles Dickens
Novels
- The Pickwick Papers (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)[1]
- The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 25, 1840, to February 6, 1841)
- Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February 13, 1841, to November 27, 1841)
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- Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)
- Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, April 1, 1854, to August 12, 1854)
- Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, April 30, 1859, to November 26, 1859)
- Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, December 1, 1860 to August 3, 1861)
- Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)
- No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. Only six of twelve planned numbers completed)
- The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890)
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Short stories
- "Dinner at Poplar Walk" (Monthly Magazine, 1833)
- "A Child's Dream of a Star" (1850)
- "Captain Murderer"
- "George Silverman's Explanation"
- "Holiday Romance"
- "The Queer Chair"
- "The Ghosts of the Mail"
- "The Baron of Grozwig"
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- "Hunted Down"
- "The Lamplighter"
- "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (with Wilkie Collins)
- "A Madman's Manuscript"
- "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain"
- "A Ghost in the Bride's Chamber"
- "The Signal-Man" (1866)
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- "Sunday Under Three Heads"
- "The Trial for Murder"
- "A House to Let" (1858)
- "The Long Voyage" (1853)
- "The Goblins who stole a Sexton"
- "To be Read at Dusk"
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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)
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- "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854)
- "The Holly-tree Inn" (1855)
- "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856)
- "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857)
- "Going into Society" (1858)
- "The Haunted House" (1859)
- "A Message from the Sea" (1860)
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- "Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861)
- "Somebody's Luggage" (1862)
- "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863)
- "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy" (1864)
- "Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" (1865)
- "Mugby Junction" (1866)
- "No Thoroughfare" (1867)
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Short story collections
- Sketches by Boz (1836)
- Master Humphrey's Clock (1840-41)
- Boots at the Holly-tree Inn: And Other Stories (1858)
- Reprinted Pieces (1861)
- The Haunted House (1862) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Proctor, George Sala and Hesba Setton)
- The Mudfog Papers (1880) aka Mudfog and Other Sketches
- To Be Read At Dusk (1898)
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Nonfiction, poetry, and plays
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- The Frozen Deep (play, 1857)
- Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870)
- Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1851-1870, pub. 1982)
- The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens (1885)
- The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens (1903)
- Complete Plays and Selected Poems (1974)
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Articles and essays
Notes
- ^ Serial publication dates from Chronology of Novels by E. D. H. Johnson, Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres, Princeton University. Accessed June 11, 2007.
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