<P> Dickens published more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas - themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books . Dickens's novels were initially serialised in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Known as "The Pickwick Papers") (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837) </Li> <Li> The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839) </Li> <Li> The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839) </Li> <Li> The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841) </Li> <Li> Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February to November 1841) </Li> <Li> A Christmas Carol (1843) </Li> <Li> The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844) </Li> <Li> Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848) </Li> <Li> David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850) </Li> <Li> Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853) </Li> <Li> Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854) </Li> <Li> Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857) </Li> <Li> A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859) </Li> <Li> Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861) </Li> <Li> Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865) </Li> <Li> The Mystery of Edwin Drood left unfinished due to Dickens's death (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870) </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Known as "The Pickwick Papers") (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837) </Li> <Li> The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839) </Li>

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