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

Desperate for money, the author penned the classic holiday tale in unusually fast fashion only for it to sell out within a ...

Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-century London, the holiday went viral.Guests:Leon ...

Dickens wrote 15 novels, including the beloved classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.

Written in 1882, "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," covered many of the same themes as Dickens' classic, albeit with ...

The literary significance of "A Christmas Carol" by no means impedes the fun provided by the tale. As Wilson wrote, "A ...

Nearly 200 years on, Dickens’s festive ghost story remains one of the sharpest critiques of money, morality and social ...

DAVID COPPERFIELD—Charles Dickens; condensed by Robert Graves; edited by Merrill P. Paine—Harcourt, Brace ($1.00). When Robert Graves’s The Real David Copperfield appeared in England last year, ...

DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and ...