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 ...

When the classic British sci-fi TV series “Doctor Who” was rebooted for the new century in 2005, the very first journey into the past for its time-traveling alien protagonist and his human companion ...

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 ...

In “The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens,” Helena Kelly revisits the image the author crafted so carefully in his lifetime. Credit...Rischgitz/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Supported by By Alexis ...

Part of the lasting appeal of "A Christmas Carol" is that the narrative has proven resilient and flexible enough to be ...

Dickens’ preferred place of burial—his Plan A—was “in the small graveyard under Rochester Castle wall, or in the little churches of Cobham or Shorne,” which were all near his country home. iStock When ...

In February of 1824, Charles Dickens watched in anguish as his father was arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea prison, just south of the Thames, in London. “I really believed at the time,” ...

There is not, in all literature, a book more thoroughly saturated with the spirit of its subject than Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” and there is no book about Christmas that can be counted its peer. To ...

Those who study Charles Dickens, or who keep up the great cult of his admiration, had been leading a fairly quiet life until a few years ago. The occasional letter bobs to the surface, or a bit of ...

Charles Dickens — one of the most beloved storytellers in the English language — was born 200 years ago Tuesday. He was a comic genius and a social reformer whose novels made him famous in his own ...

Dickens 200 t h birthday was celebrated around the world on Tuesday; it included a breathtaking reading by Ralph Fiennes, who stars in an upcoming film version of “Great Expectations,” and a ...

If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Along with Peter Ackroyd and Jan Morris, A.N. Wilson has long been ...