The author Charles Dickens was widely known as ... authors who came after him like Ralph Waldo Emerson, who saw Dickens perform a reading in Boston. The work Dickens left behind after his death ...

You probably already know that he was also the author of A Christmas Carol. The best version of this book, of course, is The Muppets Christmas Carol movie (don’t ...

Born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812, author Charles Dickens will forever be linked to the streets of 19th-century London, where so many of his books took place. But there's a lot to ...

Almost a year ago I took up the challenge of reading all of Charles Dickens's novels ... Condensing it into 250 mini-quotes (unlike Dickens I took the weekend off) has at times seemed a little ...

Biography takes some fanciful turns in “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” an engaging look at Charles Dickens and the turbulent story behind the creation of perhaps his best-loved book ...

‘Oh I got a handful of Charles Dickens,’” she said. Standing at a waist-high podium desk with a block for his elbow and a rail for his foot, the author did a 90-minute reading from his ...

the very first journey into the past for its time-traveling alien protagonist and his human companion was to 1869 Cardiff to see Charles Dickens give a public reading of “A Christmas Carol.” ...

Charles Dickens was a terrific walker ... I should just explode and perish,” Peter Conrad quotes his subject saying in “Dickens the Enchanter,” a look inside the “explosive imagination ...

Faithfully Yours, Charles Dickens." Surprisingly enough, the turkey is thought to have been partially saved, with the charred remains handed out to the people of Reading, Berks., for sixpence a ...