Though Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf put down their pens long ago, their literary output continues — now indirectly, as figures in contemporary authors’ work. Dickens, whose late years were ...

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Dickens wrote 15 novels, including the beloved classics Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Great ...

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 ...

Anyone who has read the Anne of Green Gables series (bear with me, men) might remember the chapter midway through Anne of the Island when Gilbert Blythe first proposes to Anne. It’s terribly exciting ...

When Charles Dickens began writing his first novel—in 1836, the year before Victoria took the throne—the literacy rate in England was less than 50 percent. By the end of her reign, in 1901, it was 97 ...

Colorful caricatures from Charles Dickens' novels have become fixtures of our 21st-century imagination. There is the cunning Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist's swaggering pickpocket; David Copperfield's ...

Better set some time aside for Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. The talk show host has selected a pair of Dickens classics, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations." Better set some time ...

Rockstar Games ' co-founder and longtime Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser says that his games are not quite as good as ...