Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...
MR. TONY WELLER, when Mr. Pickwick praised the intelligence of his son Samuel, expressed his pleasure at the compliment as something which reflected honor on himself. “I took,” he said, “ a great deal ...
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 ...
ONE hundred years ago, March 1836, a thin green paper-covered pamphlet called No. 1 of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was offered to a quite indifferent London reading public. Humble and ...
The book, which tells the story of miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is forced to become more charitable when he's visited by ghosts ...
Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator ...
Best known for his fiction writing, Dickens wrote a total of 15 novels between 1836 and 1870. His first was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, and his last was The Mystery of Edwin Drood, ...
Charles Dickens, read by David Timson. Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, 25 CDs, 32 hrs., $137.98 ISBN 978-1-84379-555-1 With true artistry, narrator David Timson brings to life the misadventures of the ...
The Pickwick Papers comprised three reels, individually titled "The Adventure of the Honourable Event", "The Adventure at the Westgate Seminary", and "The Adventure of the Shooting Party" based on the ...