Gyles discovers the experiences that inspired Dickens' stories and shaped his life. Adapted for stage and screen more than any other novelist, Charles Dickens is most associated with London. Although ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–To complement upcoming presentations of Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (April 2-23, locally) and Hard Times (April 30), airing as part of Mobil Masterpiece Theatre on PBS, a ...

"Little Dorrit" is anything but small. The new television adaptation of the epic novel by Charles Dickens spans eight hours. It hopscotches across a number of literary genres -- mystery, romance, ...

There are more than a dozen theatrical film versions of "A Christmas Carol," including one made in 1910, a Muppet version and another starring Mickey Mouse. And there are more than two dozen ...