Short Stories by Dickens

Gad's Hill, the last residence of Dickens, situated on the Dover Road, between Gravesend and Rochester. Built in 1779, and bought in 1856. "There he wrote the last of LD, TTC, GE, OMF, UT, and was working on MED the day before he died, June 8, 1870." (Arthur L. Hayward, The Dickens Encyclopaedia)


  1. "Sunday under Three Heads" (1836)
  2. "The Strange Gentleman" (1836)
  3. "The Village Coquettes" (1836)
  4. "Is She His Wife?" (1837)
  5. "Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" (1837)
  6. "Pantomime of Life" (1837)
  7. "Mudfog Papers" (1837-38)
  8. "Robert Bolton" (1838)
  9. "Sketches of Young Gentlemen" (1838)
  10. "Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi" (1838)
  11. "Sketches of Young Couples" (1840)
  12. "Master Humphrey's Clock" (1840-41)
  13. "An Appeal to Fallen Women" (1847)
  14. "The Life of Our Lord" (1849)
  15. "The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices" (1857)
  16. "Hunted Down" (1859)
  17. "A Holiday Romance" (1868)
  18. "George Silverman's Explanation" (1867)


Christmas Stories

(Household Words, 1850-58 and All the Year Round, 1859-67)
  1. "A Christmas Tree" (1850)
  2. "What Christmas is, as We Grow Older" (1851)
  3. "The Poor Relation's Story" (1852)
  4. "The Child's Story" (1852)
  5. "The Schoolboy's Story" (1853)
  6. "Nobody's Story" (1853)
  7. "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854)
  8. "The Holly-tree Inn" (1855)
  9. "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856)
  10. "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857)
  11. "Going into Society" (1858)
  12. "The Haunted House" (1859)
  13. "A Message from the Sea" (1860)
  14. "Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861)
  15. "Somebody's Luggage" (1862)
  16. "Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863)
  17. "Mrs Lirriper's Legacy" (1864)
  18. "Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" (1865)
  19. "Mugby Junction" (1866)
  20. "No Thoroughfare" (1867)


Pictures from Italy

  1. "The Reader's Passport"
  2. "Going through France"
  3. "Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon"
  4. "Avignon to Genoa"
  5. "Genoa and its Neighbourhood"
  6. "To Parma, Modena and Bologna"
  7. "Through Bologna and Ferrara"
  8. "An Italian Dream"
  9. "By Verona, Mantua, and Milan, across the Pass of the Simplon into Switzerland"
  10. "To Rome by Pisa and Siena"
  11. "Rome"
  12. "A Rapid Diorama"


Sketches by Boz

(Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people)
  1. "The Beadle - The Parish Engine - The Schoolmaster"
  2. "The Curate - The Old Lady - The Half-pay Captain"
  3. "The Four Sisters"
  4. "The Election for Beadle"
  5. "The Broker's Man"
  6. "The Ladies' Societies"
  7. "Our Next-Door Neighbour"
  8. "The Streets-Morning"
  9. "The Streets-Night"
  10. "Shops and their Tenants"
  11. "Scotland Yard"
  12. "Seven Dials"
  13. "Meditations in Monmouth Street"
  14. "Hackney-Coach Stands"
  15. "Doctors' Commons"
  16. "London Recreations"
  17. "The River"
  18. "Astley's"
  19. "Greenwich Fair"
  20. "Private Theatres"
  21. "Vauxhall Gardens by Day"
  22. "Early Coaches"
  23. "Omnibuses"
  24. "The Last Cab-driver, and the first Omnibus Cad"
  25. "A Parliamentary Sketch"
  26. "Public Dinners"
  27. "The First of May"
  28. "Brokers' and Marine-store Shops"
  29. "Gin-shops"
  30. "The Pawnbroker's Shop"
  31. "Criminal Courts"
  32. "A Visit to Newgate"
  33. "Thoughts about People"
  34. "A Christmas Dinner"
  35. "The New Year"
  36. "Miss Evans and the Eagle"
  37. "The Parlour Orator"
  38. "The Hospital Patient"
  39. "The Misplaced Attachment of Mr John Dounce"
  40. "The Mistaken Milliner. A Tale of Ambition"
  41. "The Dancing Academy"
  42. "Shabby-genteel People"
  43. "Making a Night of It"
  44. "The Prisoners' Van"
  45. "The Boarding-House"
  46. "Mr Minns and his Cousin"
  47. "Sentiment"
  48. "The Tuggses at Ramsgate"
  49. "Horatio Sparkins"
  50. "The Black Veil"
  51. "The Steam Excursion"
  52. "The Great Winglebury Duel"
  53. "Mrs Joseph Porter"
  54. "A Passage in the Life of Mr Watkins Tottle"
  55. "The Bloomsbury Christening"
  56. "The Drunkard's Death"

Last updated: 31 March 1997.

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