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Charles Dickens

(Charles John Huffam Dickens)

(1812 - 1870)
Great-grandfather of Monica Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter, Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years, from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Historical

Novels

   The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837)
     aka The Pickwick Papers
   The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838)
   The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
   Barnaby Rudge (1841)
   Master Humphrey's Clock (1841)
   The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
   A Christmas Carol (1843)
   The Chimes (1844)
     aka A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
   The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
   The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
   The Battle of Life (1846)
   Dombey and Son (1848)
   The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
     aka A Fancy for Christmas-Time
   David Copperfield (1850)
   Bleak House (1853)
   Hard Times (1854)
   Little Dorrit (1857)
   A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
   Great Expectations (1861)
   Our Mutual Friend (1865)
   No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)
   The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
   The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories (1984)

Omnibus

Collections

   Sketches by Boz (1836)
   Christmas Stories (1844)
   Boots at the Holly-tree Inn (1858)
   Reprinted Pieces (1861)
   The Haunted House (1862) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adeliade Proctor, George Sala and Hesba Setton)
   Mugby Junction (1866) (with Charles Collins, Amelia B Edwards, Andrew Halliday and Hesba Stretton)
   The Mudfog Papers (1880)
     aka Mudfog and Other Sketches
   To Be Read At Dusk (1898)
   A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales (1961)
   Complete Plays and Selected Poems (poems) (1974)
   The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1982)
   Christmas Tales (1988)
   Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Stories (1992)
   An Audience with Charles Dickens (1996)
   Hunted Down (1996)
   Best Ghost Stories (1997)
   Ghostly Christmas (2004)
   A Vintage Christmas (2018) (with Louisa May Alcott, L M Montgomery and Mark Twain)
   Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories (2020)
   Christmas with Charles Dickens (2021)

Novellas

   Nobody's Story
   The Black Veil (1836)
   The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1836)
   A Christmas Tree (1850)
   What Christmas Is as We Grow Older (1851)
   The Child's Story (1852)
   The Poor Relation's Story (1852)
   The Schoolboy's Story (1853)
   The Seven Poor Travellers (1854)
   The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856)
   The Hanged Man's Bride (1857)
   The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
   Going Into Society (1858)
   Hunted Down (1859)
   A Message from the Sea (1860)
   Tom Tiddler's Ground (1861)
   Somebody's Luggage (1862)
   Doctor Marigold (1865)
   The Trial for Murder (1865)
   The Signalman (1866)

Anthologies edited

A House to Let (1858)

Non fiction

   American Notes (1842)
   Pictures from Italy (1846)
   A Child's History of England (1853)
   The Uncommercial Traveller (1860)
   Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870)
   The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890) (with Wilkie Collins)
   The Life of Our Lord (1934)
   Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1982)
   Dicken's Dictionary of London 1888 (1994)

Anthologies containing stories by Charles Dickens

A Century of Humour (1925)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
Hauntings and Horror (1931)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
A Century of Thrillers (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
A Century of Ghost Stories (1936)
The Haunted Looking Glass (1959)
The Arrow Book of Horror Stories (1961)
Spine Chillers (1961)
The Frankenstein Reader (1962)
A Chamber of Horrors (1965)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
Rod Serling's Devils and Demons (1967)
London Tales of Terror (1972)
The Edge of Never (1973)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
A Little Night Reading (1974)
Victorian Tales of Terror (1974)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981)
Black Water (1983)
Devilish Doings (1985)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
Tales of the Dark (1987)
Horror Stories (1988)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988)
Gaslit Nightmares (1988)
Classic Ghost Stories II (1990)
The Open Door (1990)
Fantastic Tales (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)

Short stories

	Horatio Sparkins
	Mrs Gamp
	Mrs. Joseph Porter
	Nurse's Stories
	The Queer Client
	Sentiment
	Sikes and Nancy
	The Drunkard's Death (1836)
	The Pickwick Papers (excerpt) (1837)
	The Story of the Bagman's Uncle (1837)
	The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1837)
	The Trial from Pickwick (1837)
	A Christmas Carol [short story] (1843)
	The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain [short story] (1848)
	The Holly-Tree (1855)
	The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices [short story] (1857)
	The Haunted House [short story] (1859)
	Hunted Down [short story] (1859)
	Captain Murderer (1860)
	The Devil and Mr Chips (1860)
	The Rat That Could Speak (1860)
	Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings (1863)
	Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (1864)
	To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt (1865)
	No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman (1866)
	The Signal-Man (1866)
	The Signalman [short story] (1866)
	No Thoroughfare [short story] (1867)

Awards

Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (2010) : Charles Dickens 3 Boxed Set: A Tale of Two Cities/ Great Expectations/ Oliver Twist

Books about Charles Dickens