Five Weeks in the Country’ is a fictionalized account of the summer that Andersen overstayed his welcome at Dickens' country ...

In 1913, British author and critic G.K. Chesterton, whose 1906 biography recast the waning reputation of Charles Dickens, wrote: “Dickens did not merely believe in the brotherhood of man in the weak ...

This reissued recording of Stewart's touted Broadway performance might prove to be the enduring interpretation of Dickens's beloved tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of past, present ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

Great Expectations is the 13th novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel follows ...

It’s dawning on me that the marriage plot, which maps so well onto novels by Austen and the Brontës and George Eliot, is misapplied to Dickens. It is far more productive to think of him as a writer of ...

Better set some time aside for Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. The talk show host has selected a pair of Dickens classics, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." Better set some time ...

Colorful caricatures from Charles Dickens' novels have become fixtures of our 21st-century imagination. There is the cunning Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist's swaggering pickpocket; David Copperfield's ...

Whether you’re an occasional book reader or a bookworm, you’re surely familiar with the name Charles Dickens, but do you know Easiest Dickens Novel To Read First? Charles Dickens in one of the most ...

The two last books chosen for the Oprah Book Club are classic Charles Dickens novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Oprah announced on Monday that for her Oprah Book Club selections she ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

Fans are balking at a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations" that includes a spanking scene, opium usage and other controversial themes that are not apparent in the classic ...