Oliver Twist was Dickens’ second novel, and my first. My grandmother read it to me and my sister when we were young. We loved the part when meek little orphan Oliver, born out of wedlock in a ...

Author Charles Dickens is best known for his memorable cast of characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, shown here. The Granger Collection, NYC One of the most-read ...

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 ...

Charles Dickens was a British author, journalist, editor, illustrator, and social commentator who wrote the beloved classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. His books were ...

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 ...

Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...

Around 180 years on, Dickens’s festive ghost story remains one of the sharpest critiques of money, morality and social ...

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 ...