Charles Dickens bibliography

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), several plays, several nonfiction books, and individual essays and articles. Dickens' novels were serialized initially in weekly or monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.

Contents

Notable works by Charles Dickens

Novels

Name of novel Publication Notes
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
A Christmas Carol 1843
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844
The Chimes 1844
The Cricket on the Hearth 1845
The Battle of Life 1846
Dombey and Son Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 1848
David Copperfield Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850
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
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. Only six of twelve planned numbers completed

Short stories

  • "Sunday Under Three Heads" (1836)
  • "The Lamplighter" (1838)
  • "The Sewer-Dwelling Reptiles" (1841)
  • "A Child's Dream of a Star" (1850)
  • "Captain Murderer" (1850)
  • "To be Read at Dusk" (1852)
  • "The Long Voyage" (1853)
  • "Prince Bull" (1855)
  • "Thousand and One Humbugs" (1955)
  • "Hunted Down" (1859)
  • "The Signal-Man" (1866)
  • "George Silverman's Explanation" (1868)
  • "Holiday Romance" (1868)

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)
  • "Going into Society" (1858)
  • "Somebody's Luggage" (1862)
  • "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863)
  • "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy" (1864)
  • "Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" (1865)

Collaborative Works

Short story collections

Nonfiction, poetry, and plays

  • The Frozen Deep (play, 1857)
  • The Uncommercial Traveller (1860-1869)
  • Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870)
  • Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1851-1870, pub. 1982)
  • The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens (1885)

Articles and essays

Letters

Editing and publication of Dicken’s letters started in 1949 when publisher Rupert Hart-Davis persuaded Humphry House of Wadham College, Oxford University 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.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Serial publication dates from Chronology of Novels by E. D. H. Johnson, Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres, Princeton University. Accessed June 11, 2007.
  2. ^ Hart-Davis, Rupert (1998) [First ed. published]. Halfway to Heaven: Concluding memoirs of a literary life. Stroud Gloucestershire: Sutton. p. 42. ISBN 0-7509-1837-3. 

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Novels
Christmas books
Short stories
  • Sunday Under Three Heads (1836)
  • The Lamplighter (1838)
  • A Child's Dream of a Star (1850)
  • Captain Murderer
  • The Long Voyage (1853)
  • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857) (with Wilkie Collins)
  • Hunted Down (1859)
  • The Signal-Man (1866)
  • George Silverman's Explanation (1868)
  • Holiday Romance (1868)
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)
  • Going into Society (1858)
  • Somebody's Luggage (1862)
  • Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings (1863)
  • Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (1864)
  • Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (1865)
Short story
collections
Non-fiction
Poetry & plays
Journalism
Collaborations
Household Words
The Seven Poor Travellers (1854) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Proctor, George Sala and Eliza Linton)
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 Proctor, Harriet Parr, Percy Fitzgerald and Rev. James White)
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) (with Wilkie Collins)
A House to Let (1858) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Procter)
All the Year Round
The Haunted House (1859) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Procter, George Sala, and Hesba Stretton)
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, John Harwood, Charles Allston Collins, and Amelia Edwards)
The Trial for Murder (1865) (with Charles Allston Collins)
Mugby Junction (1866) (with Andrew Halliday, Charles Allston Collins, Hesba Stretton and Amelia Edwards)
No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
Articles & essays
  • A Visit to Newgate (1836)
  • Epitaph of Charles Irving Thornton (1842)
  • In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray (1850)
  • A Coal Miner's Evidence (1850)
  • Frauds on the Fairies (1853)
  • The Lost Arctic Voyagers (1854)