The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many 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.
Title | Publication date | Publication | Notes | Text at Wikisource |
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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 | Text | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
During his tenure as editor of Household Words and All the Year Round, Dickens would collaborate with other staff writers, usually in seasonal issues of the magazines, producing the following works:
Editing and publication of the reference edition 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]