This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Charles Dickens wrote big, long books, and when his books become movies ...
When you spend a third of your day with adolescents, you get a close look at social structures--sometimes too close! Although most of my students would scoff at reading 800 pages of nineteenth century ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. Part of ...
A BBC period drama based on one of Charles Dickens' novels has been voted the "best BBC period drama" of all time. Stylist gave Little Dorrit the honour, along with two others, and it is available to ...
Melik Kaylan's piece, "Spoiled Borat" (editorial page, Nov. 9) accomplishes two howlers in its second sentence. He writes, "'Borat,' now playing in packed theaters, brings to mind an old Oscar Wilde ...
The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...
Writer Andrew Davies applied his quill pen to adapting a number of Jane Austen novels before tackling Charles Dickens' "Bleak House," and he's back with another sprawling, impeccably cast PBS ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...