Dickens is best known for his novels A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations; and A Tale of Two Cities. For more short stories by the author, see: "To Be Read at Dusk"; "The Long Voyage"; and "The Trial for Murder."
Other contemporary Victorian Era writers include: Edgar Allen Poe, Louisa May Alcott, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, William Thackeray, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Leigh Hunt, and Lord Tennyson.