The infamous friendship breakup between authors Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen is the subject of Francine ...

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Though Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf put down their pens long ago, their literary output continues — now indirectly, as figures in contemporary authors’ work. Dickens, whose late years were ...

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This reissued recording of Stewart's touted Broadway performance might prove to be the enduring interpretation of Dickens's beloved tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of past, present ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

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

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 ...

Better set some time aside for Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. The talk show host has selected a pair of Dickens classics, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." Better set some time ...

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