If there is a single scene in a Dickens novel that is emblematic of the man and his art, it is the death of a character in "Bleak House," perhaps the greatest of all his novels, by spontaneous ...

Some people climb mountains; others explore vast deserts or trackless seas. But for a truly challenging endeavor, you don’t even have to leave the house. Writing a new biography of Charles Dickens — ...

We all know the story of Charles Dickens - the man who created some of the great characters in English literature. As this fascinating book reveals, we don't actually know the truth at all. Much of ...

Charleston, SC, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As a founder member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a member of the Dickens Fellowship, Roger Jerome has long held Charles Dickens in high ...

In 1842, British author Charles Dickens was a “rock star” of his generation. Only 30 years old at the time, he was famous for such works as "The Pickwick Papers," "The Adventures of Oliver Twist," ...

No writer better mastered the novel’s delicate calculus of art and entertainment than Charles Dickens. He was admired by literary grandees and adored by the masses, who famously turned up on American ...

Derwin Hope is the author of Charles Dickens: My Life - this new biography of the great novelist, published by Clink Street, marks his 150th anniversary this coming June. Listen to Derwin in ...

In that respect few subjects offer a tougher challenge than Charles Dickens, with whom the novelist Jane Smiley has been paired. As she acknowledges at the outset of her book, his is "possibly the ...

From the time they first met while acting in a play, the Victorian novelists Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins were apparently the best of friends. However, the records of a book which has been ...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest ...