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Charles Dickens Plot Summaries

The Works of Charles Dickens in Chronological Order:
Sketches by Boz
Sketches

Sunday under Three Heads

The Village Coquettes

The Strange Gentleman
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

Dickens' first great success: not really a novel but rather a collection of character sketches and adventures befalling the members of the Pickwick Club.

Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

The classic novel about Oliver the poorhouse boy, and his adventurous among the London underworld.


Sketches of Young Gentlemen
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

The biography of the great clown, Joseph Grimaldi edited and partially rewritten by Dickens.


Nicholas Nickleby

Sketches of Young Couples

The Old Curiosity Shop

Nell and her grandfather are pursued by the evil hunchback Mr. Quilp through a a grotesque London inhabited by eccentric characters.


Barnaby Rudge

American Notes
Tiny Tim - A Christmas Carol
Christmas Carol

Dickens's classic and sentimental novel about the ghosts of Christmas who help an old Scrooge find salvation. This story is credited with reviving the practice of celebrating Christmas which had fallen into disuse in England, and has also spawned countless movie and television adaptatiopns and rip offs.

Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit

The Chimes

Cricket on the Hearth

Pictures From Italy

A travelogue of Charles Dickens journey through Italy in 1844.


Battle of Life

Dombey and Son

Haunted Man
David Copperfield
David Copperfield

Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel set in industrial England.


Mr. Nightingale's Diary
Child's History of England
Child's History of England

Dickens' influential overview of English history beginning with the Roman era has shaped our view of England's royalty and their deeds. We are proud to present an illustrated edition of the classic work by Charles Dickens.

Bleak House
Bleak House

Probably my favourite Dickens novel: a story about a endless court case over a disputed inheritance, and the lives destroyed by folly and a broken judicial system.


Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit

Hunted Down
A Tale of Two Cities
Tale of Two Cities

A melodramatic tale about two lovers caught up in the French Revolution.

Great Expectations
Great Expectations

One of Dickens' greatest novels, full of unforgettable characters such as Pip and Miss Havisham.


Uncommercial Traveller

Our Mutual Friend
The Magic Fishbone
The Magic Fishbone

A short Christmas book for children about a princess who finds a magic fishbone.


Mystery of Edwin Drood








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