Trivia

    * The word boredom first appeared in print in Bleak House.
    * Since their initial publication, no Dickens novel has gone out of print 
    in England.
    * The expression “what the dickens” was used long before Charles was born 
    and is a corruption of “what the devil.”


Works


Major novels

    * The Pickwick Papers (1836)
    * Oliver Twist (1837–1839)
    * Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839)
    * The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841)
    * Barnaby Rudge (1841)
    * The Christmas Books:
          o A Christmas Carol (1843)
          o The Chimes (1844)
          o The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
          o The Battle for Life (1846)
    * Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)
    * Dombey and Son (1846–1848)
    * David Copperfield (1849–1850)
    * Bleak House (1852–1853)
    * Hard Times (1854)
    * Little Dorrit (1855–1857)
    * A Tale of Two Cities (July 11, 1859)
    * Great Expectations (1860–1861)
    * Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865)
    * The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished) (1870)



Selected other books

    * Sketches by Boz (1836)
    * American Notes (1842)
    * A Child’s History of England (1851–1853)



Short stories

    * “A Christmas Tree”
    * “A Message from the Sea”
    * “Doctor Marigold”
    * “George Silverman’s Explanation”
    * “Going into Society”
    * “Holiday Romance”
    * “Hunted Down”
    * “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy”
    * “Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings”
    * “Mugby Junction”
    * “Perils of Certain English Prisoners”
    * “Somebody’s Luggage”
    * “Sunday Under Three Heads”
    * “The Child’s Story”
    * “The Haunted House”
    * “The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain”
    * “The Holly-Tree”
    * “The Lamplighter”
    * “The Seven Poor Travellers”
    * “The Trial for Murder”
    * “Tom Tiddler’s Ground”
    * “What Christmas Is As We Grow Older”
    * “Wreck of the Golden Mary”