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.

Novels and novellas[edit]

Title	Publication date	Publication	Notes	Text at Wikisource
The Pickwick Papers	1837	Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837^[1]		Text
Oliver Twist	1838	Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839		Text
Nicholas Nickleby	1839	Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839		Text
The Old Curiosity Shop	1841	Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840 to 6 February 1841		Text
Barnaby Rudge	1841	Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841	Historical novel	Text
Martin Chuzzlewit	1844	Monthly serial, December 1842 to July 1844
A Christmas Carol	1843		Christmas novella; a ghost story	Text
The Chimes	1844		Christmas novella	Text
The Cricket on the Hearth	1845		Christmas novella	Text
The Battle of Life	1846		Christmas novella	Text
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain	1848		Christmas novella; a ghost story	Text
Dombey and Son	1848	Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848		Text
David Copperfield	1850	Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850		Text
A Child's History of England	1851 - 1854	Serialized in Household Words, 25 January 1851 to 10 December 1853
Bleak House	1853	Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853		Text
Hard Times	1854	Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854		Text
Sally Toppins	1854		Christmas novella
Little Dorrit	1857	Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857		Text
A Tale of Two Cities	1859	Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859	Historical novel	Text
Great Expectations	1861	Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861		Text
Our Mutual Friend	1865	Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865		Text
No Thoroughfare	1867	Written with Wilkie Collins, also published as a stageplay
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	1870	Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870.	Unfinished - Only six of twelve planned numbers completed	Text
Posthumous
The Life of Our Lord	1934	Written by Dickens to his children between 1846 - 1849. Details the life of Jesus.

Short stories[edit]

The Lamplighter (1838)
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)
The five Sisters of York (part of Nicholas Nickleby)
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[edit]

"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; collaboration)

"The Holly-tree Inn" (1855; collaboration)
"The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856; collaboration)
"The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857; collaboration)
"Going into Society" (1858)
"A Message from the Sea" (1860; collaboration)
"Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861; collaboration)
"Somebody's Luggage" (1862)

"Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863; collaboration)
"Mrs Lirriper's Legacy" (1864; collaboration)
"Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" (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[edit]

"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 Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863) and "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[edit]

Sketches by Boz (1836)
The Mudfog Papers (1837–8) aka Mudfog and Other Sketches
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)

Nonfiction, poetry, and plays[edit]

Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) (under the pseudonym "Timothy Sparks")
The Strange Gentleman (play, 1836)
The Village Coquettes (comic opera, 1836)
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838), edited by Dickens under his regular nom de plume, "Boz".
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[edit]

"Christmas Festivities" (1835; also known as "A Christmas Dinner")
"A Coal Miner's Evidence"
"Frauds on the Fairies"
"In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray the first!"
"The Lost Arctic Voyagers" (1854)
"The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew"

Letters[edit]

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 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[edit]

↑ 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. Search this book on
↑ 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[edit]

Charles Dickens' works to read online at Bookwise
Works by Charles Dickens at Project Gutenberg, HTML and plain text versions.
Works by Charles Dickens at Faded Page (Canada)
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[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. Search this book on

[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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