Charles Dickens bibliography

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' novels were serialised 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

Title	Year completed	Type
Sketches by Boz	1836	Short Stories
The Pickwick Papers	1837	Novel
The Mudfog Papers	1838	Short Stories
Oliver Twist	1839	Novel
Nicholas Nickleby	1839	Novel
The Old Curiosity Shop	1841	Novel
Barnaby Rudge	1841	Novel
Master Humphrey's Clock	1841	Short Story
American Notes	1842	Non-fiction Travelogue
A Christmas Carol	1843	Novella
Martin Chuzzlewit	1844	Novel
The Chimes	1844	Novella
The Cricket on the Hearth	1845	Novella
Pictures from Italy	1846	Non-fiction Travelogue
The Battle of Life	1846	Novella
Dombey and Son	1848	Novel
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain	1848	Novella
The Life of Our Lord	1849	Non-fiction History
David Copperfield	1850	Novel
A Child's History of England	1853	Non-fiction History
Bleak House	1853	Novel
"The Long Voyage"	1853	Short Story
Hard Times	1854	Novel
"The Holly-Tree Inn"	1855	Short Story
Little Dorrit	1857	Novel
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices	1857	Short Story
Reprinted Pieces	1858	Short Stories
A Tale of Two Cities	1859	Novel
"The Haunted House"	1859	Short Story
Great Expectations	1861	Novel
"Somebody's Luggage"	1862	Short Story
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings / Legacy	1864	Short Stories
Our Mutual Friend	1865	Novel
"The Signal-Man"	1866	Short Story
"No Thoroughfare"	1867	Short Story
"A Holiday Romance"	1868	Short Story
The Uncommercial Traveller	1869	Short Stories and Reminiscences
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	1870	Novel (unfinished)

Novels

Title	Publication	Notes
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837[1]
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress	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, 25 April 1840 to 6 February 1841
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, January 1843 to July 1844
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
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
Bleak House	Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853
Hard Times: For These 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) "The Sewer-Dwelling Reptiles" (1841) "A Child's Dream of a Star" (1850) "Captain Murderer" (1850) "To be Read at Dusk" (1852) (a ghost story) "The Long Voyage" (1853)

"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)

"The Queer Chair" (part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story) "The Ghosts of the Mail" (part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story) "The Baron of Grogzwig" (part of Nicholas Nickleby; a ghost story) "A Madman's Manuscript" (part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story) "A Ghost in the Bride's Chamber" (part of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices; a ghost story) "The Goblins who Stole a Sexton" (part of The Pickwick Papers; a ghost story)

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)

"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)

"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)

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)

Short story collections

Sketches by Boz (1836) Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838) Sketches of Young Couples (1840) Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–41) Boots at the Holly-tree Inn: And Other Stories (1858) Reprinted Pieces (1861) The Mudfog Papers (1880) aka Mudfog and Other Sketches

Nonfiction, poetry, and plays

Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) (under the pseudonym "Timothy Sparks") The Strange Gentleman (play, 1836) The Village Coquettes (comic opera, 1836) The Fine Old English Gentleman (poetry, 1841) American Notes: For General Circulation (1842) Pictures from Italy (1846) The Life of Our Lord: As written for his children (1849) A Child's History of England (1853)

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)

Articles and essays

"A Coal Miner's Evidence" "Frauds on the Fairies" "In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray the first!" "The Lost Arctic Voyagers" (1854)

Letters

Editing and publication of Dickens' 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. 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.

External links

• Works by Charles Dickens at Project Gutenberg, HTML and plain text versions.
• Works by or about Charles Dickens at Internet Archive