Every holiday, we embrace 'A Christmas Carol.' But some of Charles Dickens' other Christmas books were even more popular in ...

To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Charles Dickens Museum in London is staging an exhibition of historic objects that ...

Enter the world of Charles Dickens in an London exhibition of portraits, private letters, rare manuscripts at the author's ...

Revered for his ability to craft intimate windows into life in London during the Victorian period in all its desperate squalor and utter glory, Charles Dickens’ novels remain some of the most ...

CHARLES DICKENS—Stephen Leacock— Doubleday ... Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens’ books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero ...

There is not, in all literature, a book more thoroughly saturated with the spirit of its subject than Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” and there is no book about Christmas that can be counted ...

On 19 December 1843, critics hastily read Dickens's freshly-published ghostly tale, spilling out their first reactions about it, in newspapers up and down Britain. Most received the book with the ...

Charles Dickens wrote that he “endeavor[ed] in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea” for his readers. “May it haunt their houses pleasantly,” he wished. For generations ...

By 1822, when Charles was 10, debt’s constant tug ... And the rich were scarcely alone in their class-bound vision. As Dickens was spinning novels, the history of the working class in Manchester ...

While reading “A Goblin,” Bobby Maso portraying author Charles Dickens reads from “A Christmas Carol” and other works during a program at Historic Brainerd Church in Sugarloaf Twp.

"All the books were adapted for the stage immediately ... So it's worth remembering that Charles Dickens wrote the original story with a high sense of purpose — and not a little anger.