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)