This reissued recording of Stewart's touted Broadway performance might prove to be the enduring interpretation of Dickens's beloved tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of past, present ...

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

After Charles Dickens’s death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend. John Forster’s “The Life of Charles Dickens,” published in 1872, served for many ...

Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris during the French Revolution. It follows Charles ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

An exhibition at Charles Dickens' former home explores the women in his life - and the characters they inspired.

Everybody knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and how his bah humbug spirit was transformed on one fateful Christmas Eve. As with any iconic character, though, Scrooge was first born in the ...

A festival celebrating Charles Dickens will be held in Worcestershire, nearly 170 years since the novelist visited the county during a national tour. The Great Recitations Dickens Festival will take ...