Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people become familiar with his novels through film and TV adaptations.

LONDON — They were the best of lines, they were the worst of lines — and the desk where Charles Dickens wrote them has been saved for the British public. London’s Dickens Museum has received a $1.2 ...

Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works ...

Christmas movies thrive on the sense that we're all in this together, "fellow passengers to the grave" as Charles Dickens put it. That sense was common in the 1940s and '50s, an era that produced some ...

There is no shortage of doorstop biographies of Charles Dickens (1812–1870). This latest one by Slater, a Dickens scholar and professor emeritus at the University of London, bears an easy, fluid ...

2017-11-19T14:59:12-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b5d/20171119153742002_hd.jpgLes Standiford talked about his book The Man Who Invented Christmas, in which he ...

Charles Dickens was a British author, journalist, editor, illustrator, and social commentator who wrote the beloved classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. His books were ...

Book lovers have a rare opportunity to buy a travel writing desk and silverware set once owned by the British writer Charles Dickens. Both items are up for grabs at a sale organized by RR Auctions, ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Pop culture has embraced ...

J.J. Abrams has compared the writing of Lost to the serialisation of works by Charles Dickens. The co-creator of the series told The Guardian that its screenwriters were not always certain where the ...

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