Charles Dickens Books


The Cricket on the Hearth

Charles Dickens

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richar..

Contributions to All The Year Round

Charles Dickens

All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom. Edited by D..

The Chimes

Charles Dickens

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year..

The letters of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. They have been described as "i..

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Cur..

Perils of Certain English Prisoners

Charles Dickens

In 1857, Charles Dickens paired up with his close friend and fellow Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins to produce this interesting novella. Said to have been inspired by the Sepoy Mutiny of that year, ..

The Lamplighter

Charles Dickens

The Lamplighter is a wild farce. It feels a little as if someone deleted all the plot, characterization, and heavy themes from one of Dickens' shorter novels and just left us with a dozen pages of the..

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death on 9 June 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it ..