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Which Novels Did Charles Dickens Write?


Can you name all sixteen? The ANSWERS are at the FOOT of this page.
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What are the 16 novels written by Charles Dickens?

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 to 1870) was a Victorian writer and social critic. He wrote 16 novels, from 1837 to 1870 (the Victorian Period started in 1837 and ended in 1901). Unfortunately, he died just before completing his last novel.

Born in Portsmouth, he famously had to leave school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in the Marshalsea debtors' prison. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, Miss Havisham, Little Nell, Fagin, Oliver Twist, and the Artful Dodger. His contribution to English literature in unquestioned and he is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Everyone can name many of his classic works, but can you name all sixteen?







The 16 novels written by Charles Dickens:

  • The Pickwick Papers (1836-7)
  • Oliver Twist
  • Nicholas Nickleby
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Barnaby Rudge
  • A Cristmas Carol (1843)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Dombey and Son
  • David Copperfield
  • Bleak House
  • Hard Times
  • Little Dorrit
  • A tale of Two Cites
  • Great Expectations
  • Our Mutual Friend
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dicken's unfinished novel, 1870)