No writer better mastered the novel’s delicate calculus of art and entertainment than Charles Dickens. He was admired by literary grandees and adored by the masses, who famously turned up on American ...

Classic novels often explain power better than modern leadership manuals. By looking closely at Austen, Dickens, and Woolf, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The author's family life lacked the warmth of his 'A Christmas Carol' He was talented and energetic but secretive, complicated and conflicted There are roots to the desire and longing as well as the ...

Front and center in Adagio Players’ enchanted look into the heart of the beloved holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” is Charles Dickens’ absolutely gorgeous prose. Props, sets, costumes and makeup are ...

An essay, not a novel, but a provocative expression of Dickens’s Christian thinking in which he gives bold advice to pastors. The emphasis, however, is on the centrality of Jesus in the Christian ...

Now that the pandemic has returned and many are quarantined in their houses, perhaps the sale of books and e-books will soar. Of special interest is England’s greatest popular and literary writer, ...