The Tales of Charles Dickens

 

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Charles John Huffam Dickens; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870 was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.

Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

 

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List of Charles Dickens stories and essays

 

1836                   Pickwick Papers

1837-1838          Oliver Twist

1838-1839          Nicholas Nickleby

1840                   Old Curiosity Shop

1841                   Barnaby Rudge

1842                   American Notes

1843                   Martin Chuzzlewit

1843                   A Christmas Carol

1844                   The Chimes

1845                   The Cricket on the Hearth

1846                   Dombey and Son

1849-1850          David Copperfield

1852                   Bleak House

1854                   Hard Times

1855                   Little Dorrit

1859                   A Tale of Two Cities

1860-1861         Great Expectations

1864                  Our Mutual Friend

1870                  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

                          A Child's History of England

                          George Silverman's Explanation

                          Haunted Man/Ghost's Bargain

                          Holiday Romance

                          Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens

                          Master Humphrey's Clock

                          Mudfog and Other Sketches

                          Pictures from Italy

                          Reprinted Pieces

                          Sketches by  Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

                          Sketches of Young Couples

                          Sketches of Young Gentlemen

                          Speeches: Literary and Social

                          Sunday Under Three Heads

                          The Battle of Life

                          The Lamplighter: A Farce in One Act

                          The Uncommercial Traveller

                          To Be Read At Dusk

                          Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

                          Three Ghost Stories

                          The Signal-Man

                          The Haunted-House 

                          The Trial for Murder