Dickens’s writing remains timeless not because he sugar-coated reality, but because he confronted it with honesty, humor, and ...

Charles Dickens stipulated that when he died there should be no memorial to his life, save his writings. However, his home city of Portsmouth has now erected a statue to the celebrated author.

At the Morgan Library in New York, there is an autograph letter that Charles Dickens wrote to his friend Emile de La Rue on ...

Now, as Dickens turns 200, they are taking up residence in the imaginations of a new generation, through the film of “Great Expectations” directed by Mike Newell, and the BBC’s version with ...

Many of Charles Dickens’s characters were inspired by real people from his own life experiences, acquaintances or public figures. He used aspects of their personalities to create vivid and ...

BBC iPlayer is home to a number of the most well-reviewed and beloved novel adaptations in recent history, with one ...