Charles Dickens Books

A coming-of-age novel about ambition, shame, class illusion, love, and moral awakening.

A ghost story of memory, conscience, poverty, generosity, and the possibility of moral change.

A revolutionary novel of sacrifice, doubles, vengeance, terror, and resurrection.

A deeply personal Bildungsroman of childhood, memory, work, love, friendship, and becoming a writer.

A social novel of orphanhood, poverty, crime, innocence, and the harsh machinery of charity.

A vast Dickens novel of law, inheritance, secrecy, poverty, and moral vision.

Dickens’s exuberant first novel follows Mr. Pickwick through comic travel, law, debt, friendship, and bustling English life.

A sentimental Dickens journey following Little Nell through debt, pursuit, poverty, kindness, and loss.

A lively Dickens novel of family struggle, abusive schools, theater life, injustice, and comic resilience.

A mature Dickens novel about pride, commerce, family neglect, railways, childhood, and emotional awakening.

Dickens’s historical novel of mystery, family secrets, public violence, and the Gordon Riots of 1780.

A Dickens satire of selfishness, inheritance, hypocrisy, America, architecture, and moral conversion.

A compact Dickens novel about factories, utilitarian education, class pressure, and the human cost of hard facts.

Dickens’s dark late novel of inheritance, identity, waste, class, and moral renewal.