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Welcome to the “Dickens for Dummies” website.
Charles Dickens is one of the best loved and well known authors. Born in the 19th century, his work was well known and popular within his lifetime. Throughout the 20th century his work did not lose popularity and now, in the 21st century, the works of Charles Dickens show no sign of being neglected.
This site is dedicated to Charles Dickens and his works. We hope you’ll enjoy this site and find it interesting and helpful.
Charles Dickens - Born February 7th 1812 in Portsmouth England
- Died June 9th 1870 at Gad’s Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England (Aged 58)
The Works of Charles Dickens
Novels
The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837)
Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist of the Boy's Progress (1837–1839)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841)
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (1841)
A Christmas Carol (Dec 1843)
Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) (1843–1844)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
Dombey and Son (1846–1848)
The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain) (1848)
David Copperfield (1849–1850)
Bleak House (1852–1853)
Hard Times (1854)
Little Dorrit (1855–1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860–1861)
Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished) (1870)
Short stories:
"A Child's Dream of a Star" (1850)
"A Christmas Tree" (1850)
"What Christmas is, as We Grow Older" (1851)
"The Poor Relation's Story" (1852)
"The Child's Story" (1852)
"The Schoolboy's Story" (1853)
"Nobody's Story" (1853)
"The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854)
"The Holly-tree – in Three Branches" (The Holly-tree Inn) (1855)
"The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856)
"The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857)
"Going into Society" (1858)
"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" (Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions)(1865)
"Mugby Junction" (1866)
"No Thoroughfare" (1867)
"George Silverman's Explanation"
"Holiday Romance" in 4 parts (also published in England as All the Year Round"(1868))
– Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar Master
– The Magic Fishbone
– The Trial of William Tinkling
"Captain Murderer"
"Hunted Down"
"The Lamplighter"
"The Signal-Man" (1866)
"Sunday Under Three Heads"
"The Trial for Murder"
"A House to Let" (1858) co-operation
"The Long Voyage" (1853)
"The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices"
Other Works
Sketches by Boz (1836)
The Mudfog Papers (Mudfog and Other Sketches)(1837–1838)
Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–1841)
American Notes (1842)
Pictures from Italy (1844–1845)
The Life of Our Lord (1846, published in 1934)
A Child's History of England (1851–1853)
The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869)
An Introduction by Charles Dickens to Legends & Lyrics by Adelaide Ann Procter (1858)
A Coal Miner's Evidence
Adelaide Anne Procter
A Monument of French Folly
Bill Sticking
Births. Mrs Meek of a Son
Capital Punishment
Crime and Education
In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
The Agricultural Interest
Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman
The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall
On Mr. Fechter's Acting
The Begging Letter Writer
Our English Watering Place
Our French Watering Place
Lying Awake
The Ghost of Art
Out of Town
A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent
The Noble Savage
A Flight
The Detective Police
Three Detective Anecdotes
- The Pair of Gloves
- The Artful Touch
- The Sofa
On Duty with Inspector Field
Down with the Tide
A Walk in a Workhouse
Prince Bull – A Fairy Tale
Our Honourable Friend
Our School
Our Vestry
Men of Mooneymount
Our Bore
Sketches of Young Couples
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
To be Read at Dusk
Speeches
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