The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens

Published 1 December 1914
The Mystery of Edwin Drood as completed by a loyal Dickensian. This title is cited and recommended by Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

Published December 1950
To Paul Dombey, business is everything and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his little son, while his motherless daughter Florence craves affection from her unloving father, who sees her only as a base coin that couldn't be invested'. As Dombey's callousness extends to others - from his defiant second wife Edith to Florence's admirer Walter Gay - he sows the seeds for his own destruction. Can this heartless businessman be redeemed? A compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, "Dombey and Son" (1848) explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole.

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens

Published 1 January 1857
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as Dickens' "masterpiece among many masterpieces," Little Dorrit offers a somber and complex portrait of debtors' prisons and government bureaucracy.

The Haunted House

by Charles Dickens

Published 1 October 2002
On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounter. “Conducted” by Charles Dickens and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins among its contributors, The Haunted House examines quintessentially Victorian themes–sex and longing, nostalgia and loss–in ways that continue to resonate today. Ingeniously conceived and written, and spiked with flashes of Dickensian humor, this volume is a strange and sheer delight.