Seventy years ago, in 1954, the late critic Eleanor Farjeon wrote an introduction to “Christmas Books by Charles Dickens” in which she stated of the five books, “The Cricket on the Hearth” (written in ...

WE have long needed a handsome American edition of the works of the most popular English novelist of the time, and here we have the first volumes of one which is superior, in type, paper, ...

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

years. There is inevitable significance in the fact that of the four books outside the province of the story-teller, in this list of twenty-eight, two have to do with Charles Dickens. This ...

Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London; By Lee Jackson; Yale University Press; 218 pp. $28.00 And so they did. Dickens might be the only writer who spawned a tourist industry devoted to ...

Mister Scrooge is having quite a time in Central New York this holiday season. Syracuse Stage, which is celebrating 50 years of bringing world class theatrical productions to the community, is ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. TWO Charles Dickens-inspired shows make their premieres at Key City Public Theatre ...

Dickens, on the other hand, endured a hard-knock life as a child. His father went to debtors’ prison; as a boy, Dickens had to work in a shoe-blacking factory. Yet Dickens was brilliant in overcoming ...

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