After Charles Dickens’s death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster’s “The Life of Charles Dickens,” published in 1872, served for many ...
A festival celebrating Charles Dickens will be held in Worcestershire, nearly 170 years since the novelist visited the county ...
An essay, not a novel, but a provocative expression of Dickens’s Christian thinking in which he gives bold advice to pastors. The emphasis, however, is on the centrality of Jesus in the Christian ...
Around 180 years on, Dickens’s festive ghost story remains one of the sharpest critiques of money, morality and social ...
DAVID COPPERFIELD—Charles Dickens; condensed by Robert Graves; edited by Merrill P. Paine—Harcourt, Brace ($1.00). When Robert Graves’s The Real David Copperfield appeared in England last year, ...
Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...