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Short Stories


Charles Dickens wrote many colorful, sad, funny, witty and exciting short stories of the Victorian era.

Short stories by Charles Dickens:


  • A Holiday Romance

    A Holiday Romance contains four short stories written from the point of view of four children. (23 pages)


  • A Message From the Sea

    A Message from the Sea tells the story of how Captain Jorgan found a message in a bottle... (21 pages)


  • Doctor Marigold

    Doctor Marigold is a story about street peddler who adopts a deaf-mute girl. (19 pages)


  • George Silverman's Explanation

    George Silverman's Explanation is a short story about a man writing about his unfulfilled life. (18 pages)


  • Hunted Down

    Hunted Down is a short story about poisoning and life-insurance fraud (15 pages)


  • Master Humphrey's Clock

    Master Humphrey's Clock is a collection of short stories. (76 pages)


  • Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

    Short story - Mrs. Lirriper Relates How She Went On, And Went Over, Mrs. Lirriper Relates How Jemmy Topped Up (20 pages)


  • Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

    Short story - How Mrs. Lirriper Carried On The Business, How The Parlours Added A Few Words (23 pages)


  • Mudfog and Other Sketches

    Mudfog and Other Sketches - Mr. Tulrumble, The First Meeting of Mudfog, The Pantomime of Life, A Lion (54 pages)


  • Mugby Junction

    Mugby Junction is the Christmas story for 1866. (33 pages)


  • Reprinted Pieces

    Reprinted Pieces - a collection of short stories by Charles Dickens (153 pages)


  • Sketches by Boz

    Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces presenting a variety of scenes and characters. (325 pages)


  • Sketches of Young Couples

    Sketches of Young couples - a parody of social relations between the sexes. (32 pages)


  • Sketches of Young Gentlemen

    Sketches of Young Gentlemen - Dedicated to the Young Ladies (30 pages)


  • Some Short Christmas Stories

    Short Christmas Stories - A Christmas Tree, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, Nobody's Story, The Poor Relation's Story (34 pages)


  • Somebody's Luggage

    Somebody's Luggage - a waiter stumbles upon some luggage and tries to identify its owner. (33 pages)


  • Sunday Under Three Heads

    Sunday Under Three Heads was written as a protest against a law that would prohibit all work and all recreation on Sunday. (19 pages)


  • The Haunted House

    A tale about The Haunted House (19 pages)


  • The Holly Tree

    The Holly Tree is a delightful little tale with dual romance. (23 pages)


  • The Lamplighter

    The Lamplighter - short story by C. Dickens (12 pages)


  • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices - humorous narrative of two idle apprentices running away from their employer. (67 pages)


  • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

    The Perils of Certain English Prisoners is a study of British Imperialism, set in Asia and South America. (31 pages)


  • The Seven Poor Travellers

    The Seven Poor Travellers - short story in three chapters (17 pages)


  • The Signal-Man

    The Signal-Man is a ghostly thriller by Charles Dickens (9 pages)


  • The Trial For Murder

    The Trial For Murder is a tale of an English juror haunted by a vengeful ghost. (8 pages)


  • The Wreck of the Golden Mary

    The Wreck of the Golden Mary tells the story of a terrifying ordeal of the passengers when Golden Mary collides with an iceberg. (20 pages)


  • To Be Read At Dusk

    To Be Read At Dusk is a story dealing with precognition. (8 pages)


  • Tom Tiddler's Ground

    Tom Tiddler's Ground - short story (17 pages)