When you think of England at Christmastime, what pops into your head? Ancient carols sung by a choir? Figgy pudding? Surely Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the rest of the characters from Charles ...

In 1836 the start of the longest reigning queen of England coincides with the beginning of the career of the greatest British author since Shakespeare Charles Dickens In discovering the characters ...

Charles Dickens died 150 years ago, yet his books remain some of the most widely read literature in America, from “Oliver Twist” and “Great Expectations” to “A Christmas Carol.” That’s why 22 years ...

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and ...

(RNS) Britain's Prince Charles kicked off a yearlong celebration of Charles Dickens' 200th birthday on Tuesday (Feb. 7) with a wreath-laying ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey. It seems a fitting ...

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 ...

“I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.” Charles Dickens wrote those ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

Charles Dickens, author of "A Christmas Carol," visited Louisville in 1842. His story would be retold in the city over a ...