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 ...

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

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 ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

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

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and charitable concern for the poor.

The book, which tells the story of miser Ebenezer Scrooge who is forced to become more charitable when he's visited by ghosts ...

The movie adaptations of these timeless classics, from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to modern romance novels, will make your Christmas delightful.

To make the most of this peak reading environment, author John Searles, who is releasing his next book "Single Girls" in July ...

A BBC period drama based on one of Charles Dickens' novels has been voted the "best BBC period drama" of all time. Stylist ...

As an elementary teacher, my mother could string together colorful phrases using the names of fourth-grade art supplies, just to avoid a “swear word.” She had strict rules on what was allowed to be ...