Charles Dickens bibliography

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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.

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 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

Short stories[edit]

Stories from collaborative works[edit]

  • "The Poor Relation's Story" (1852) (part of A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire)
  • "The Child's Story" (1852) (part of A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire)
  • "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853) (part of Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire)
  • "Nobody's Story" (1853) (part of Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire)
  • "The First Poor Traveller" (1854) (part of The Seven Poor Travellers)
  • "The Road" (1854) (part of The Seven Poor Travellers)
  • "The Guest" (1855) (part of The Holly-tree Inn)
  • "The Boots" (1855) (part of The Holly-tree Inn)
  • "The Bill" (1855) (part of The Holly-tree Inn)
  • "The Wreck" (1856) (part of The Wreck of the Golden Mary)
  • "A Ghost in the Bride's Chamber" (1857) (part of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices)
  • "The Island of Silver-Store" (1857) (part of The Perils of Certain English Prisoners)
  • "The Rafts on the River" (1857) (part of The Perils of Certain English Prisoners)
  • "Going into Society" (1858) (part of A House to Let)
  • "The Mortals in the House" (1859) (part of The Haunted House)
  • "The Ghost in Master B.'s Room" (1859) (part of The Haunted House)
  • "The Ghost in the Corner Room" (1859) (part of The Haunted House)
  • "The Village" (1860) (part of A Message from the Sea)
  • "The Money" (1860) (part of A Message from the Sea)
  • "The Restitution" (1860) (part of A Message from the Sea)
  • "Picking Up Soot and Cinders" (1861) (part of Tom Tiddler's Ground)
  • "Picking Up Miss Kimmeens" (1861) (part of Tom Tiddler's Ground)
  • "Picking Up the Tinker" (1861) (part of Tom Tiddler's Ground)
  • "His Leaving It Till Called For" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage)
  • "His Boots" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage)
  • "His Brown-Paper Parcel" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage)
  • "His Wonderful End" (1862) (part of Somebody's Luggage)
  • "How Mrs. Lirriper Carried on the Business" (1863) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings)
  • "How the Parlour Added a Few Words" (1863) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings)
  • "How She Went On, and Went Over" (1864) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy)
  • "How Jemmy Topped Up" (1864) (part of Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy)
  • "To Be Taken Immediately" (1865) (part of Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions)
  • "The Trial for Murder" (1865) (part of Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions)
  • "To Be Taken for Life" (1865) (part of Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions)
  • "Barbox Brothers" (1866) (part of Mugby Junction)
  • "The Boy at Mugby" (1866) (part of Mugby Junction)
  • "The Signal-Man" (1866) (part of Mugby Junction)

Short story collections[edit]

  • Sketches by Boz (1836)
  • The Mudfog Papers (1837–38)
  • Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838)
  • Sketches of Young Couples (1840)
  • Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–41)
  • The Poor Traveller, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn and Mrs. Gamp (1858)
  • Reprinted Pieces (1861)
  • Three Ghost Stories (1866)
  • Christmas Stories (1868)
  • The Lamplighter, To Be Read at Dusk and Sunday Under Three Heads (1868)

Collaborative works[edit]

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:

Poetry[edit]

  • Songs from The Village Coquettes (1836)
  • "The Ivy Green", "A Christmas Carol", "Gabriel Grub's Song" and "The Romance of Dick Turpin" (from The Pickwick Papers) (1837)
  • "Duet" (from The Lamplighter) (1838)
  • "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" (1839)
  • Three Political Squibs from the Examiner ("The Fine Old English Gentleman", "The Quack Doctor's Proclamation" and "Subjects for Painters") (1841)
  • "Prologue" (from John Westland Marston's play The Patrician's Daughter (1842)
  • "A Word in Season" (1844)
  • "All Hail to the Vessel of Pecksniff the Sire" and "It May Lighten and Storm" (from Martin Chuzzlewit) (1844)
  • Verses from the Daily News ("The British Lion" and "The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers") (1846)
  • "New Song" (to Mark Lemon) (1849)
  • "Prologue" and "The Song of the Wreck" (from Wilkie Collins' play The Lighthouse) (1855)
  • "A Child’s Hymn" (from The Wreck of the Golden Mary) (1856)
  • "Prologue" (from Dickens and Collins' play The Frozen Deep) (1857)
  • The Complete Poems of Charles Dickens (collection, 1885)

Plays[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

1838 Poster advertisement for Memoirs of Grimaldi

Letters[edit]

Main article: Letters of Charles Dickens

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]

Articles and essays[edit]

  • "Christmas Festivities" (1835; also known as "A Christmas Dinner")
  • "The Agricultural Interest" (1844)
  • "Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman" (1844)
  • "The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall" (1845)
  • "Crime and Education" (1846)
  • "Capital Punishment" (1846)
  • "The Begging-Letter Writer" (1850)
  • "A Coal Miner's Evidence" (1850)
  • "The Ghost of Art" (1850)
  • "A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent" (1850)
  • "The Detective Police" (1850)
  • "Three Detective Anecdotes" (1850)
  • "A Walk in a Workhouse" (1850)
  • "A Christmas Tree" (1850)
  • "Our English Watering-Place" (1851)
  • "Bill-Sticking" (1851)
  • "Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son" (1851)
  • "A Flight" (1851)
  • "On Duty with Inspector Field" (1851)
  • "Our School" (1851)
  • "A Monument of French Folly" (1851)
  • "What Christmas is, as We Grow Older" (1851)
  • "A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree" (1852)
  • "Lying Awake" (1852)
  • "A Plated Article" (1852)
  • "Our Honourable Friend" (1852)
  • "Our Vestry" (1852)
  • "Our Bore" (1852)
  • "Down with the Tide" (1853)
  • "Frauds on the Fairies" (1853)
  • "Our French Watering-Place" (1854)
  • "The Noble Savage" (1854)
  • "The Lost Arctic Voyagers" (1854)
  • "Out of Town" (1855)
  • "Out of the Season" (1855)
  • "The Poor Man and his Beer" (1859)
  • "Five New Points of Criminal Law" (1859)
  • "Leigh Hunt: A Remonstrance" (1859)
  • "The Tattlesnivel Bleater" (1859)
  • "The Young Man from the Country" (1862)
  • "An Enlightened Clergyman" (1862)
  • "Rather a Strong Dose" (1863)
  • "The Martyr Medium" (1863)
  • "In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray" (1864)
  • "Adelaide Anne Procter: Introduction to her Legends and Lyrics" (1866)
  • "The Late Mr. Stanfield" (1867)
  • "A Slight Question of Fact" (1869)
  • "Landor's Life" (1869)
  • "Explanatory Introduction to Religious Opinions by the Late Reverend Chauncey Hare Townshend" (1869)
  • "On Mr. Fechter's Acting" (1869)

Notes[edit]

  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.
  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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