Charles Dickens

                   Major Works
 
 

                   NOVELS: The Pickwick Papers (1837); Oliver Twist (1838);
                   Nicholas Nickleby (1839); The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby
                   Rudge (1841), two novels first published in a "clock framework," later
                   abandoned, under the title of Master Humphrey's Clock; Martin
                   Chuzzlewit (1844); Dombey and Son (1848); 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); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870,
                   unfinished).
 
 
 

                   CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A Christmas Carol (1843); The Chimes
                   (1845, for 1844); The Cricket on the Hearth (1846, for 1845); The
                   Battle of Life (1846); The Haunted Man (1848).
 
 
 

                   STORIES (CHRISTMAS STORIES): The volume entitled Christmas
                   Stories in collected editions includes "A Christmas Tree" (1850); "What
                   Christmas Is as We Grow Older" (1851); "The Poor Relation's Story"
                   (1852); "Nobody's Story" (1853); "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854);
                   "The Holly-Tree," sometimes called "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" (1865);
                   "Mugby Junction" (1866); "No Thoroughfare" (1867). (OTHER
                   STORIES): in collected editions generally appended to the volume
                   entitled Reprinted Pieces, ["The Lamplighter" (1841);] "To Be Read at
                   Dusk" (1852); "Hunted Down" (1859); "George Silverman's
                   Explanation" (1867); "Holiday Romance" (1868; children's story in 4
                   parts; pt. 2, "The Magic Fishbone," often reprinted separately).
 
 
 

                   OTHER WORKS: Sketches by "Boz," 2 series (1836, together, 1839,
                   included Dickens' first published work, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk,"
                   1833); Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838) and Sketches of Young
                   Couples (1840), both usually appended to the Sketches by "Boz"
                   volume, in collected editions, which also usually contains "The Mudfog
                   Papers" (contributed to Bentley's Miscellany, 1837-38); American
                   Notes (1842); Pictures from Italy (1846); The Life of Our Lord
                   (completed 1849, for his children; published 1934); A Child's History of
                   England (1852-54); "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" (with
                   Wilkie Collins, contributed to Household Words [1857]; often included
                   in the volume entitled Christmas Stories); Reprinted Pieces (1858;
                   contributed to Household Words, 1850-56); The Uncommercial
                   Traveller (1861, amplified 1868, 1875; contributed to All the Year
                   Round, 1860-69); Plays and Poems, ed. by R.H. Shepherd (1885);
                   Miscellaneous Papers, ed. by B.W. Matz (1908; the most substantial
                   posthumous collection, mainly essays contributed to Household Words,
                   1850-59; 16 further items, in the volume retitled Collected Papers, in
                   The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937); Uncollected Writings from
                   Household Words 1850-1859, ed. by Harry Stone (1968).