Here you will find 31 free Charles Dickens books in PDF, from all fifteen novels to the Christmas books and the ghost stories. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and Bleak House sit next to the shorter work most collections quietly leave out.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was the novelist who turned Victorian London into the most crowded city in English literature. He wrote about orphans, debtors and clerks because he had been a child laborer himself, while his father sat in prison for debt.
That is why he is read as a social critic as much as a storyteller. Every title here is in the public domain, so take as many as you want at no cost.
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Novels
Charles Dickens Novels
These fifteen Charles Dickens novels run from the comic sprawl of The Pickwick Papers to the mystery he died before finishing. If you are starting from zero, Great Expectations is the shortest way in.
Dickens sets a story of sacrifice and resurrection against the violence of the French Revolution. Two men who look alike, one worthless and one condemned, hold the ending between them.
Dickens turns the anti-Catholic riots of 1780 into a study of how a crowd becomes a mob. His first historical novel, and the one where the violence feels closest to reporting.
A lawsuit that has outlived everyone who started it sits at the centre of this novel. Widely read as the sharpest attack on institutional delay in English fiction, and the book many consider his best.
The novel Dickens called his favourite child, and the one closest to his own life. A boy loses everything, works in a factory, and slowly writes his way out.
A merchant wants an heir and overlooks the daughter who loves him. Dickens builds the whole book around that blindness, with the new railways tearing through London behind it.
A blacksmith’s apprentice comes into money from a source he misreads completely. The shortest way into Dickens, and the one that punishes snobbery hardest.
His shortest novel, aimed squarely at an education system built on facts and nothing else. Set in a mill town where the same thinking runs the factories.
A woman born inside a debtors’ prison and a government office designed to prevent anything from happening. Dickens knew the prison first hand, and it shows.
A young man takes a teaching post at a Yorkshire school that turns out to be a racket. The exposure was real enough that schools of that kind started closing.
A workhouse orphan asks for more and is thrown into the London underworld. The book that made Dickens a name people argued about rather than just read.
A girl and her grandfather flee a debt collector across England. Readers waited at the docks for the last instalment, which tells you how hard this one landed.
The book that made Dickens famous at twenty four. Four gentlemen tour England and get almost everything wrong, and it is still the funniest thing he wrote.
Dickens wrote five Christmas books, and all five are here alongside his ghost stories and shorter tales. These are the Dickens titles you can finish in a single evening.
A carrier suspects his young wife, and the cricket on his hearth argues otherwise. The most domestic of the Christmas books and a huge seller in its day.
Dickens spent his life as a working journalist, and it shows in what he wrote about America, Italy and the streets of London. This is Dickens with the novelist's eye pointed at real places.
Dickens published almost everything in monthly parts, which is why these books still read like serials that refuse to let you go. He died in 1870 with The Mystery of Edwin Drood half written, leaving fifteen novels, five Christmas books and a lifetime of journalism.
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