Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...

Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London; By Lee Jackson; Yale University Press; 218 pp. $28.00 And so they did. Dickens might be the only writer who spawned a tourist industry devoted to ...

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

Mister Scrooge is having quite a time in Central New York this holiday season. Syracuse Stage, which is celebrating 50 years of bringing world class theatrical productions to the community, is ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee -- In 1842, Charles Dickens, the famed English writer soon to publish classics such as “A Christmas Carol” and “A Tale of Two Cities,” arrived along the golden shores of ...

When the classic British sci-fi TV series “Doctor Who” was rebooted for the new century in 2005, the very first journey into the past for its time-traveling alien protagonist and his human companion ...

A BBC period drama boasting a stellar cast has been praised by audiences members as one of the finest adaptations of a ...