Charles Dickens bibliography
The bibliography of Charles Dickens includes more than a dozen major novels, many short 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.
Short stories
- "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
- "Mrs. Joseph Porter"
- "Horatio Sparkins"
- "The Bloomsbury Christening"
- "The Boarding-House"
- "Sentiment"
- "The Steam Excursion"
- "A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle"
- "The Great Winglebury Duel"
- "The Black Veil"
- "The Tuggses at Ramsgate"
- "The Drunkard's Death"
- "The Stroller's Tale"
- "The Convict's Return"
- "A Madman's Manuscript"
- "The Bagman's Story"
- "The Parish Clerk"
- "The Old Man's Tale"
- "The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton"
- "The True Legend of P. B."
- "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle"
- "Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble"
- "The Pantomime of Life"
- "Some Particulars Concerning a Lion"
- "The First Meeting"
- "The Second Meeting"
- "Mr. Robert Bolton"
- "Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child"
- "The Lamplighter"
- "The Five Sisters of York"
- "The Baron of Grogzwig"
- "First Night of the Giant Chronicles"
- "A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second"
- "Mr. Pickwick's Tale"
- "A Child's Dream of a Star"
- "Captain Murderer"
- "To Be Read at Dusk"
- "The Long Voyage"
- "Prince Bull"
- "The Thousand and One Humbugs"
- "The History of a Self-Tormentor"
- "Mrs. Gamp"
- "Hunted Down"
- "The Substance of the Shadow"
- "George Silverman's Explanation"
- "Holiday Romance"
Stories from collaborative works
- "The Poor Relation's Story"
- "The Child's Story"
- "The Schoolboy's Story"
- "Nobody's Story"
- "The First Poor Traveller"
- "The Road"
- "The Guest"
- "The Boots"
- "The Bill"
- "The Wreck"
- "The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber"
- "The Island of Silver-Store"
- "The Rafts on the River"
- "Going into Society"
- "The Mortals in the House"
- "The Ghost in Master B.'s Room"
- "The Ghost in the Corner Room"
- "The Village"
- "The Money"
- "The Restitution"
- "Picking Up Soot and Cinders"
- "Picking Up Miss Kimmeens"
- "Picking Up the Tinker"
- "His Leaving It Till Called For"
- "His Boots"
- "His Brown-Paper Parcel"
- "His Wonderful End"
- "How Mrs. Lirriper Carried on the Business"
- "How the Parlour Added a Few Words"
- "How She Went On, and Went Over"
- "How Jemmy Topped Up"
- "To Be Taken Immediately"
- "The Trial for Murder"
- "To Be Taken for Life"
- "Barbox Brothers"
- "The Boy at Mugby"
- "The Signal-Man"
Short story collections
Sketches by Boz The Mudfog Papers Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey's Clock The Poor Traveller, Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn and Mrs. Gamp Reprinted Pieces Three Ghost Stories Christmas Stories- ''The Lamplighter, To Be Read at Dusk and Sunday Under Three Heads''
Collaborative works
During his tenure as editor of Household Words and All the Year Round, Dickens collaborated with other writers, usually for seasonal issues of the magazines, producing the following works:- Published in Household Words:
- * "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire"
- * "Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire"
- * "The Seven Poor Travellers"
- * "The Holly-tree Inn"
- * "The Wreck of the Golden Mary"
- * "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices"
- * "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners"
- * "A House to Let"
- Published in All the Year Round:
- * "The Haunted House"
- * "A Message from the Sea"
- * "Tom Tiddler's Ground"
- * "Somebody's Luggage"
- * "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings"
- * "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy"
- * "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions"
- * "Mugby Junction"
- * "No Thoroughfare"
Poetry
Songs from The Village Coquettes- "The Ivy Green", "A Christmas Carol", "Gabriel Grub's Song" and "The Romance of Dick Turpin"
- "Duet"
- "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" Three Political Squibs from the Examiner
- "Prologue"
- "A Word in Season"
- "All Hail to the Vessel of Pecksniff the Sire" and "It May Lighten and Storm" Verses from the Daily News
- "New Song"
- "Prologue" and "The Song of the Wreck"
- "A Child’s Hymn"
- "Prologue"
Plays
| Title | Year | Style | Notes |
| The Strange Gentleman | 1836 | Comic opera | |
| The Village Coquettes | 1836 | Comic opera | |
| Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular! | 1837 | Comic opera | |
| The Lamplighter | 1838 | Farce | |
| Mr. Nightingale's Diary | 1851 | Farce | with Mark Lemon |
| The Frozen Deep | 1857 | with Wilkie Collins | |
| No Thoroughfare | 1867 | With Wilkie Collins |
Nonfiction
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi American Notes for General Circulation Pictures from Italy The Life of Our Lord A Child's History of England The Uncommercial Traveller Speeches, Letters and Sayings Miscellaneous Papers Contributions to All The Year RoundLetters
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.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.
Collections
| Title | Year | Publisher | Notes |
| Letters of Charles Dickens Volume I | |||
| Letters of Charles Dickens Volume II | |||
| Letters of Charles Dickens Volume III | 1881 | Charles Shribner’s Sons | Edited by Mamie Dickens and Georgina Hogarth |
| The plays and poems of Charles Dickens, with a few miscellanies in prose Volume I | 1885 | W. H. Allen & Co. | Edited by Richard Herne Shepherd |
| The plays and poems of Charles Dickens, with a few miscellanies in prose Volume II | 1885 | W. H. Allen & Co | Edited by Richard Herne Shepherd |
| Old lamps for new ones, and other sketches and essays hitherto uncollected | 1897 | Edited by Frederick G. Kitton |
Articles and essays
- "Christmas Festivities"
- "The Agricultural Interest"
- "Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman"
- "The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall"
- "Crime and Education"
- "Capital Punishment"
- "The Begging-Letter Writer"
- "A Coal Miner's Evidence"
- "The Ghost of Art"
- "A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent"
- "The Detective Police"
- "Three Detective Anecdotes"
- "A Walk in a Workhouse"
- "A Christmas Tree"
- "Our English Watering-Place"
- "Bill-Sticking"
- "Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son"
- "A Flight"
- "On Duty with Inspector Field"
- "Our School"
- "A Monument of French Folly"
- "What Christmas is, as We Grow Older"
- "A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree"
- "Lying Awake"
- "A Plated Article"
- "Our Honourable Friend"
- "Our Vestry"
- "Our Bore"
- "Down with the Tide"
- "Our French Watering-Place"
- "The Noble Savage"
- "Out of Town"
- "Out of the Season"
- "The Poor Man and his Beer"
- "Five New Points of Criminal Law"
- "Leigh Hunt: A Remonstrance"
- "The Tattlesnivel Bleater"
- "The Young Man from the Country"
- "An Enlightened Clergyman"
- "Rather a Strong Dose"
- "The Martyr Medium"
- "In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray"
- "Adelaide Anne Procter: Introduction to her Legends and Lyrics"
- "The Late Mr. Stanfield"
- "A Slight Question of Fact"
- "Landor's Life"
- "Explanatory Introduction to Religious Opinions by the Late Reverend Chauncey Hare Townshend"
- "On Mr. Fechter's Acting"