Charles Dickens

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  • Bibliography:
    83 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1836
  • Latest Book:
    January 1899
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Full Series List in Order

All the Year Round Magazine

The Haunted House (1859)
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)
Mugby Junction (1866)
No Thoroughfare (1867)

The Christmas Books

A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket On The Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)

Household Words Magazine

A Detective Police Party (1851)
The Metropolitan Protectives (1851)
What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older (1851)
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1852)
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1853)
The Seven Poor Travellers (1854)
The Holly Tree Inn (1855)
Nemesis (1856)
Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856)
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
A House to Let (1858)

Book List in Order: 83 titles

  • The Pickwick Papers

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved...

  • Sketches by Boz

    Charles Dickens classic book with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". The materia...

  • Sunday Under Three Heads

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions; and were thus instrumental in calling forth occasional demonstrations of ...

  • Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

    In 1837 Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old, was asked to ‘tidy up’ Joseph Grimaldi’s autobiography " he ended up re-writing most of it. Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), one of the greatest English clowns and pantomimes of all time, was b...

  • Mudfog and Other Sketches

    Charles Dickens' series of funny sketches about the fictional 'Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a parody of the real-life British Association for the Advancement of Science....

  • The Lamplighter

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • Nicholas Nickleby

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed Pickwick Papers. There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now....

  • Oliver Twist

    Classic Starts (Sterling)

    Charles Dickes classic novel with biography, plot summary, character analysis and more. Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who escapes f...

  • Barnaby Rudge

    Charles Dickens classic novel with biography, plot summary, character analysis and more. The plot is a murder mystery interwoven with the historical events of England's Gordon riots of 1780, a violent and bloody mob action of fanatical, anti-Catholic...



  • Master Humphrey's Clock

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Old Curiosity Shop

    Charles Dickens classic novel with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London....

  • American Notes: for General Circulation

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.IT is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too....

  • A Christmas Carol

    The Christmas Books

    Christmas should be a wonderful time. Mean old Scrooge says, "Humbug," when anyone mentions Christmas. He doesn't like giving money away and he resents giving his clerk Bob Cratchit the day off to spend with his family. The Cratchits don't have mo...

  • The Chimes

    The Christmas Books

    "The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness...

  • Martin Chuzzlewit

    Regarded by Dickens himself as his best novel upon publication, the experiences of Martin Chuzzlewit relate a tale of familial selfishness and eventual moral redemption. While he is in love with the young Mary Graham, Martin alienates himself from hi...

  • The Cricket On The Hearth

    The Christmas Books

    Charles Dickens classic novel with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary. John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious old stranger with a long white...

  • The Battle of Life

    The Christmas Books

    Charles Dickens classic novel with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary. "Battle" is noteworthy in that it is the only one of the five Christmas Books that has no supernatural or explicitly religious elements. (One scen...

  • Pictures from Italy

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • Dombey and Son

    Charles Dickens classic novel with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his busine...



  • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

    The Christmas Books

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, ‘The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.’ In this story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mista...

  • The Life of Our Lord

    Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfiel...

  • A Detective Police Party

    Household Words Magazine

    Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original te...

  • The Metropolitan Protectives

    Household Words Magazine

    Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original te...

  • What Christmas Is, as We Grow Older

    Household Words Magazine

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire

    Household Words Magazine

    Published in its entirety for the first time since 1852, this shining collection of Christmas tales was originally selected by Charles Dickens for his periodical Household Words. Each story varies in theme and tone, wit...

  • To Be Read at Dusk

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • The World Here and There

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire

    Household Words Magazine

    Building on the success of his Christmas number for 1852, Dickens used the same framing concept for 1853’s Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. This wide-ranging round features tales of angels, ghosts, and ...

  • Bleak House

    The complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal ...



  • A Child's History of England

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Hard Times

    Charles Dickens classic novel with biography, plot summary, character analysis and more. Dickens's reasons for writing Hard Times were mostly monetary. Sales of his weekly periodical, Household Words, were low, and he hoped the inclusion of this nove...

  • The Seven Poor Travellers

    Household Words Magazine

    Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During...

  • The Holly Tree Inn

    Household Words Magazine

    Over the course of his career, Charles Dickens wrote a series of Christmas-themed short stories that were serialized in popular magazines of the era. "The Holly Tree Inn," like many of these tales, reflects on the deeper meaning of the holida...

  • Nemesis

    Household Words Magazine

    Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original te...

  • Wreck of the Golden Mary

    Household Words Magazine

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, ‘The Wreck of the Golden Mary.’ Captain Ravender and first mate Steadiman are bringing the Golden Mary from England to California, for the gold rush, when they run into an ice...

  • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

    Throughout his lifetime, Charles Dickens produced several works of fiction and non-fiction in collaboration with his friend and fellow writer, Wilkie Collins. This fictionalized account of a walking tour the two took together highlights the pair at t...

  • Little Dorrit

    Charles Dickens classic novel with biography, plot summary, character analysis and more.The book is a satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons --...

  • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

    Household Words Magazine

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • A House to Let

    Household Words Magazine

    Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  Collins often collaborated with other prominent British authors during his time.  A Hous...



  • The Haunted House

    All the Year Round Magazine

    The Haunted House is a classic horror tale written by Charles Dickens. On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their roo...

  • Hunted Down

    Catchy detective tales.“A very little key will open a very heavy door.” - Hunted Down, Charles Dickens A fascinating selection of Dicken’s detective stories about the law officers and the circumstances in which they work....

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade -- this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work, A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloq...

  • A Message from the Sea

    All the Year Round Magazine

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Great Expectations

    Classic Starts (Sterling)

    Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values. Written at a time when Dickens' relationship with Victorian society had reached a crisis, this novel is peopled by characte...

  • Reprinted Pieces

    Charles Dickens wrote short stories and essays that are comical, satirical, and morally earnest. This collection of over thirty of Dickens’s stories and essays is an invaluable addition to the library of all fans and students of the preeminent Vict...

  • Tom Tiddler's Ground

    All the Year Round Magazine

    In this remarkable work, Dickens has discussed profound issues in a light manner. It presents the motif that the talents and abilities provided to men are for the general benefit of mankind. With deeply drawn characters that are multidimensional, thi...

  • Somebody's Luggage

    All the Year Round Magazine

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

    All the Year Round Magazine

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

    All the Year Round Magazine

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...



  • Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

    All the Year Round Magazine

    Craving some feel-good fiction? Curl up with "Doctor Marigold," a heartwarming tale from the pen of beloved author Charles Dickens. The story follows the tragedies and triumphs of a street vendor who loses a child and then adopts a young deaf...

  • Our Mutual Friend

    Charles Dickens classic novel with a biography about the life and times of Dickens, and a plot summary. Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864"65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, comb...

  • Mugby Junction

    All the Year Round Magazine

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • The Magic Fishbone

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • No Thoroughfare

    All the Year Round Magazine

    No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. The story contains crafted descriptions, well-drawn and diverse characters, eerie and exotic backgrounds, mystery, semi-concealed identit...

  • George Silverman's Explanation

    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of...

  • Sketches of Young Couples

    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

  • Sketches of Young Gentlemen

    Sketches of Young Gentlemen is a sequel to Sketches of Young Ladies. Dickens entertains his readers by dividing the universe of young gentlemen into classes and describing each impeccably....

  • The Uncommercial Traveller

    A collection of literary sketches and reminiscences....

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication

    Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replace...

  • A Child's Dream Of A Star

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Charles Dickens, ‘A Child's Dream of a Star.’ A Child's Dream of a Star was written in the year 1850 by Charles Dickens. This book is one of the most popular novels of Charles Dickens;There wa...

  • Mrs. Gamp With The Strolling Players

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • David Copperfield

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    Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this stunning 175th anniversary edition of David Copperfield complete with a bold brand new cover.Of all my books, I like this the best - Char...

  • Holiday Tales of Charles Dickens

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  • The Black Veil

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    The black veil is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as...

  • The Bloomsbury Christening

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    The Bloomsbury Christening is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally...

  • The Boarding-House

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    The boarding-house is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarde...

  • Captain Boldheart

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    Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurre...

  • A Christmas Carol in Prose

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  • A Christmas Tree

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    Clearly a literary great, Charles Dickens gave his gifts to the world many years ago with his classic tales. Enjoy Dickens' imagination as you read one of his classic Christmas short stories, "A Christmas Tree." *Classic cream color pages* *Matte cov...

  • The Drunkard's Death

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    The Drunkard's Death is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regar...

  • The Great Winglebury Duel

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    The Great Winglebury Duel is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally ...

  • Horatio Sparkins

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    Horatio Sparkins is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded ...

  • The Long Voyage

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    WHEN the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood...

  • Mr. Minns and His Cousin

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    Mr. Minns and his cousin is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally r...

  • Mrs. Joseph Porter

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    Mrs. Joseph Porter is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarde...

  • A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle

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    A passage in the life of Mr. Watkins Tottle is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters...

  • The Poor Relation's Story

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    Clearly a literary great, Charles Dickens gave his gifts to the world many years ago with his classic tales. Enjoy Dickens' imagination as you read one of his classic Christmas short stories, "The Poor Relation's Story." *Classic cream color pages* *...

  • Sentiment

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    Sentiment is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the ...

  • The Signal Man

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    The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near...

  • Speaches Literary and Social

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    If I felt your warm and generous welcome less, I should be better able to thank you. If I could have listened as you have listened to the glowing language of your distinguished Chairman, and if I could have heard as you heard the "thoughts that breat...

  • The Steam Excursion

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    The Steam Excursion is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regard...

  • The Tuggses at Ramsgate

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    The Tuggses at Ramsgate is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 " 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally re...

  • The Uncommercial Traveler

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    No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is per...

Award-Winning Books by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations
2009 Audies -- Classic
Nicholas Nickleby
2012 Audies -- Classic
Oliver Twist
1999 Audies -- Solo Narration-Female


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Charles Dickens has published 83 books.

Charles Dickens does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mrs. Gamp With The Strolling Players, was published in January 1899.

The first book by Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, was published in January 1836.

Yes. Charles Dickens has 3 series.
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