Notable works

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” 

Oliver Twist (The Adventures of Oliver Twist; monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)

Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)




The Old Curiosity Shop (weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841)





A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost-story of Christmas; 1843)

 The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)